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Banks and Fed sites score as least trustworthy in OTA 2017 security and privacy audit

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We frequently hear that we can’t have privacy and security; sadly, that is often still the case as an audit of over 1,000 top websites analyzed for security and privacy practices showed an alarming trend for the third year in a row. The Online Trust Alliance said, “Sites either qualify for the Honor Roll or fail the Audit. In other words, sites increasingly either take privacy and security seriously and do well in the Audit, or lag the industry significantly in one or more critical areas.”

There is good news and bad news coming out of the audit (pdf). The good news is that 52 percent of websites, the highest percent in nine years of the annual analysis, qualified for the OTA’s Honor Roll. The flipside is that 46 percent of the websites failed the audit; of those, bank did the worst.

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Hacker finds flaws in Palo Alto student info, test score storage – The Mercury News

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The Mercury News

Hacker finds flaws in Palo Alto student info, test score storage
The Mercury News
Partial records for about 14,000 students of the Palo Alto Unified School District were accessed in a data breach by a computer security researcher who discovered vulnerabilities of a data storage vendor that Palo Alto schools previously used. The …

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AP misses date of Lincoln’s death by four score and 20 years; we all miss copy editors

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The typo itself – an Associated Press story reported that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1965 instead of 1865 – was just that, a typo, as even a middle-schooler knows our 16th president never lived to hear the Beatles.

However, among journalists of a certain age (mine), the distressing though not unexpected aspect of the miscue was that the erroneous date made it onto so many prestigious news sites. As a 1970s-era college friend of mine put it in an email subject line: “Copy editing was a fine profession …”

Meaning that back before the near-extinction of copy editors, it would have been unlikely that the Associated Press would have allowed such a gaffe, never mind that it would have gone unnoticed by so many AP-subscriber news organizations.

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Network World Paul McNamara

UpGuard offers a rating score of risk preparedness

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UpGuard analyzes data about the state of corporate networks to devise a single numerical score that gives a quick sense of security risk, a number that could be used by insurance companies to set premiums for cyber insurance.

The UpGuard platform includes a scanner that evaluates exposure of publicly facing Web interfaces and determines the risk of breaches. This is augmented by analysis of data about the internal network from sources including existing security platforms and software services via APIs or from Windows Remote Management.

That is rolled up into a number – the Cybersecurity Threat Assessment Report (CSTAR) – that capsulizes how vulnerable a network is to attacks, the company says. In addition to the number, the platform enables drilling down into what weaknesses it has found so customers can take remedial action.

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Network World Tim Greene