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• Hackers Post Private E-mails of Historian and Accused Holocaust Denier

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 770
  A group identifying themselves as “anti-fascist hackers” broke into the web site and AOL e-mail account of controversial British historian and accused Holocaust-denier David Irving and obtained his private communications as well as attendee lists for his current U.S. speaking tour. The hackers posted Irving’s ...
  17 hours ago

• IN: Boxes of medical files found abandoned

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 133
  Tom Moor reports:An agent with the Indiana attorney general’s office removed 21 boxes of medical records from a downtown office building Friday that contain the personal information of hundreds of local people.The boxes, consisting of thousands of sheets of paper, contain patients’ Social Security numbers, ...
  22 hours ago

• Es: Barcelona hospital has opened a disciplinary case against the doctor patient details on the street

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 133
  Barcelona hospital has opened a disciplinary case against the doctor who left patient details on the street.The papers contained the personal details of 173 transplant patients beside a container for recycling paper.It appears the papers were kept at the persons home, although they no longer worked at the hospital. T ...
  1 day ago

• Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to improve data security

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 133
  Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has pledged to improve the security of patients’ personal information after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it in breach of the Data Protection Act.The ICO was provided with a report from the Director of ICT regarding the theft of a laptop computer from the ...
  1 day ago

• UK: Probe over access to patient data

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 133
  An inquiry is being carried out into a data breach at a Hull GP surgery after patients’ records were accessed by an unauthorised member of staff.NHS Hull said it was working with the police after the incident at a GP group practice in the west of the city, which affects about 350 patients. The individual [...]
  1 day ago

• UK: Primary Care Trusts breach the Data Protection Act

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 133
  Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust and Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust have taken remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found them in breach of the Data Protection Act.Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust (PCT) informed the ICO of the theft of two desktop computers ...
  1 day ago

• Why is Child Pornography on Your PC?

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  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 stressed the ...
  1 day ago

• Corporate data breaches raise the risk of consumer ID theft

  
  Endpoint Security Info — Authority: 108
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• DLP is Short for Disturbing Lack of Process?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Danny Lieberman , Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates Ted Ritter has suggested that we rename DLP a Disturbing Lack of Process … Indeed DLP is not a well-defined term – since so many vendors (Kaspersky anti-virus, McAfee anti-virus, Symantec anti-virus, Trend Micro Provilla, CA ...
  1 day ago

• HITECH Act and Protecting Health Privacy

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts September 23, 2009 marked a major milestone for patient rights. That is when the new Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act took effect, requiring healthcare organizations to take more responsibility for protecting ...
  1 day ago

• Microsoft Threat Assessment & Modeling

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP Every organization has some form of Information Security Risk Assessment - some perform a formal risk assessment, others simply use their practical experience . Whatever method is chosen, it always helps to use a tool which will assist the organization in ...
  2 days ago

• Indian police arrest company boss accused of selling medical records of British patients

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 133
  From the Mail Foreign Service:The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals.Police arrested Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode on Tuesday after an undercover investigation revealed the records were being sold ...
  2 days ago

• Smarten Up. Increase Your Information Security Vocabulary

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  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 would ask me to do ...
  3 days ago

• MD: Possible identity theft reported at Mercy

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 133
  Brent Jones reports:Baltimore police are investigating a security breach at Mercy Medical Center that left an undisclosed number of patient records open to possible identity theft, according to the Maryland attorney general’s office.The hospital’s vice president for corporate compliance sent a letter to the ...
  3 days ago

• Jennifer Lopez “Sex” Tape Temporarily Shelved

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 148
  Jeremy Tanner reports: Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant sided with singer Jennifer Lopez Tuesday after granting a restraining order that will prevent ex-husband Ojani Noa from distributing a sex tape filmed during their 1997 honeymoon. The restraining order is in effect pending the outcome ...
  3 days ago

• NY State Consumer Protection Board and State Division of Veterans’ Affairs Expand Assistance

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 148
  From the New York State Division of Veterans’ Affairs: In commemoration of Veteran’s Day, the New York State Consumer Protection Board (CPB) today joined with the New York State Division of Veterans’ Affairs to announce new information and resources for U.S. military personnel and veterans to help protect them ...
  3 days ago

• Protesters Hijack Hundreds of Facebook Groups, Pointing Out Weakness In Social Networks

  
  CyberInsecure.com — Authority: 126
  Hundreds of Facebook groups have been hijacked in recent days by users pointing out what they say is a weakness in how the social-networking site handles the administration of its groups. By Tuesday morning, 286 groups had apparently been renamed Control Your Info and had a new message posted to their walls.“Hello, ...
  3 days ago

• Report: Globalization of Malware Production

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Simon Heron , CISSP Internet Security Analyst Traditionally, malware has tended to originate mainly from countries like Brazil and America, with other nations such as Korea and India joining them in the top 10 malware charts in recent years. However, October’s threat stats reveal that the level of malware ...
  3 days ago

• High-profile Advertiser Media-servers.net Website Hacked, Serving Exploits Cocktail

  
  CyberInsecure.com — Authority: 126
  Websense Security Labs has reported that the site media-servers.net has been compromised and injected with malicious code. The Web site belongs to a high-profile advertiser on the Internet realm. It’s important to note that media-servers.net serves advertising content from ad.media-servers.net, and that this site is ...
  4 days ago

• Privacy Case Flunks ‘Duck Test,’ Court Says

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 148
  Annie Youderian reports: The 7th Circuit dismissed an invasion-of-privacy class action filed by Illinois citizens who submitted voter registration forms at the state Department of Motor Vehicles. The complaint flunks the “duck test,” Judge Terence Evans wrote, because the lead plaintiff “says, in effect, that ...
  4 days ago

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