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• Blue Cross Blue Shield Data Breach Investigation Extends Credit Protection for Providers to 2 Years

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  Well maybe not the good news we wanted to hear about the notebook possibly being found, but here’s the next best available bit of news on the security breach with providers from Blue Cross, one extra year of credit monitoring.  Just a question, but does anyone really pay for this service unti l there is a ...
  10 hours ago

• Starbucks Data Breach Plaintiffs Try Their Luck in the Ninth Circuit

  
  Electronic Communications, Privacy, Data Protection, and More — Authority: 115
  A lost laptop computer containing the personal information of Starbucks employees prompted a class action lawsuit against Starbucks (in Washington).  The lawsuit received some coverage (see, for example Bob McMillan here , and Starbucks Gossip here ), but the trial courts dismissal of the lawsuit received almost no ...
  20 hours ago

• Increase Your Information Security IQ

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Years ago (like 20) a friend was graduating from college and moving away and a bunch of friends were throwing a party for this person. Collectively they asked me if I’d write a small speech as a version of “This is your life”. Stymied as to why they ...
  23 hours ago

• Don’t Hide a Security Breach if You Can’t Do the Time

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  When Will Costs Outweigh Health Information Technololgy? By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDSAt what point will security data breaches become so costly that dentists will abandon computerization and return to pegboards and ledger cards?Senate Judiciary CommitteeA week ago, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved two separate ...
  2 days ago

• What Could Possibly Be Worse Than A Virus?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Anti-virus protection, critical security patches and a secure wireless connection have always been essential processes on my networks. My main concern has always been to protect my bank account by keeping the bad guy out. In my presentations, I’ve always ...
  3 days ago

• Corporate data breaches raise the risk of consumer ID theft

  
  Endpoint Security Info — Authority: 103
  If a company, bank of hospital handling your private details has suffered a data breach, you are four times more likely to have your identity stolen. So if you have received a notification letting you know your data has been exposed, you should acknowledge the greater risk for ID theft or fraud, says a recent study by ...
  3 days ago

• Heartland, VeriFone Foodfight Flares Up Again

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 580
  In last weeks saga of two security vendors filing exaggerated half-truth accusations at each other, Heartland Payment Systems issued a statement that apparently contradicted its own court filing. This week, the two firms rumble about a federal judges decision, whether a Web site is still up or not and generally ...
  4 days ago

• PCI: Maybe It’s Not Just For Card Data Any More

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 580
  With all of the recent fuss about PCI requirements and how to protect payment cards, many companies have opted to take a far too narrow view of data protection. The PCI rules are absolutely designed to only apply to payment cards, but the same common-sense security guidelines will also dramatically help the security ...
  4 days ago

• Congressional Leak Spotlights P2P User Act

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Congress is still considering the Informed P2P User Act, a law that would supposedly make it safer to use peer-to-peer file sharing software, an effort that is similar to banning mosquitoes from sucking blood. It just isn’t happening. The only foolproof way ...
  4 days ago

• It’s Not Just For Card Data Any More

  
  McAfee Security Insights Blog — Authority: 121
  With all of the recent fuss about PCI requirements and how to protect payment cards, many companies have opted to take a far too narrow view of data protection. The PCI rules are absolutely designed to only apply to payment cards, but the same common-sense security guidelines will also dramatically help the security ...
  5 days ago

• End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

  
  PopHomeTech — Authority: 152
  In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...
  5 days ago

• Evaluating Corporate Social Media Strategies

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  Daniel Wallace , Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward How vendors, integrators and consultants can position themselves to support CISO’s with corporate social media adoption… In the past I have written articles and advised CISO’s on how social media technology can be used as a vehicle ...
  6 days ago

• Ten Common Identity Theft Myths Dispelled

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert The National Foundation for Credit Counselors , which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a number of identity theft myths. To support their efforts, the Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee has helped to clarify some ...
  6 days ago

• Odd Trio Frees the Patent Database, Lulu to Start Offering DRM, and More

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 132
  A coalition of the unlikely frees the patent database Carl Malamud explains at O’Reilly Radar how so-called zero dollar deals by government agencies often lead to proprietary lock-in of public data. He then explains how three unlikely comrades–Intellectual Ventures, Google, and the Internet Archive–cooperated ...
  1 week ago

• Dont throw confidential documents out a window

  
  NextAdvisor Daily — Authority: 472
  New Yorkers were very excited about the Yankees World Series win last week. So excited, in fact, that when they couldnt find any confetti during the victory parade on Friday, they began tossing miscellaneous paperwork out the window. That miscellaneous paperwork included a wealth of confidential information . Pay ...
  1 week ago

• National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate : Via Threat Level . A national data breach law got closer to passage this week. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills Thursday that address data security and breach notification, according to Government Information Security . The legislation was drafted in ...
  1 week ago

• Data breach notifications one step closer to law... again

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Data breach notifications one step closer to law... again : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . Every time theres a major data breach in retail or government, theres a chorus of frustrated customers trying to find out whether their information was exposed to would-be identity thieves. The problem is ...
  1 week ago

• Data breach notifications one step closer to law… again

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  Every time there’s a major data breach in retail or government, there’s a chorus of frustrated customers trying to find out whether their information was exposed to would-be identity thieves. The problem is that it’s near impossible to find out this information unless the organization in question takes the ...
  1 week ago

• Data breach notifications one step closer to law... again

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 755
  Every time theres a major data breach in retail or government, theres a chorus of frustrated customers trying to find out whether their information was exposed to would-be identity thieves. The problem is that its near impossible to find out this information unless the organization in question takes the initiative ...
  1 week ago

• Federal Statutes Aid Trade Secret Prosecution

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By John Watkins , Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil The protection of trade secrets through litigation has generally been limited to civil lawsuits, typically filed under state law statutory or common law provisions. This is true even though federal and state statutes have provided criminal penalties ...
  1 week ago

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