By: James | February 01, 2013

By Nate Stewart, WLTX news


Richland County, SC (WLTX) -- Three motions have been filed to dismiss the class-action lawsuit over the data breach at the Revenue Department.The lawsuit filed in October 2012, charges Gov. Haley, the former Director of the Revenue Department Jim Etter, the Department of State Information Technology, and the company Trustwave with failure to protect the citizens of South Carolina from the hacking that has taken place.   


The motions, filed in the Fifth Judicial Circuit, request a judge dismiss the lawsuit because the three Defendants have immunity under the South Carolina Tort Claims Act.The motions also claim that the lawsuit should be thrown out since the data breach is the subject of an on-going invest...

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By: James | November 29, 2012

By:  Huffingtonpost Staff


Hackers have been able to take advantage of a security flaw present in millions of hotel door locks to effortlessly steal from guests.


Forbes first reported on the flaw in July, and in a followup story, the magazine now says the bug, present in locks made by a company called Onity, has been exploited in a string of recent hotel thefts at a Houston Hyatt.

The security flaw was first publicized at a hacker conference in July by software developer Cody Brocious who showed how a simple electronics device could be used to unlock doors protected by locks in at least four million hotel rooms worldwide.


Brocious demonstrated how the locks could be compromised by inserting a digital probe into a small hole on the door l...

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