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• Data Breach Alert: Social Security numbers printed on postcards

  
  NextAdvisor Daily — Authority: 132
  Last week, the Universal American Action Network, a subsidiary of Universal American Insurance, sent 80,000 postcards to Medicare participants throughout the country. On these postcards, printed above the recipients names, were their Social Security numbers . The mistake occurred because Social Security numbers are ...
  3 days ago

• Health Insurer Loses 1.5 Million Patient Records

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 507
  Health Insurer Loses 1.5 Million Patient Records : Via Threat Level . A health insurer lost 1.5 million patient records last May but waited six months to disclose the incident. The data, which was stored on a portable disk drive that disappeared from the insurer’s office, was unencrypted and included patient ...
  3 days ago

• Blue Cross Blue Shield data breach under the microscope

  
  Endpoint Security Info — Authority: 108
  A data breach that results in exposing private details usually means bad consequences. Especially when an institution fails to properly inform those affected of what had happened. Such is the case of the recent Blue Cross Blue Shield’s (BCBS) loss of confidential information, including tax identification and social ...
  3 days ago

• Attack Code Posted for Internet Explorer

  
  Laptop Security Blog — Authority: 121
  When newer versions of web browsers come out, most of us update and forget about it but some people continue to use the older versions for a variety of reasons.  Since they have been out for longer and may not benefit from more up-to-date protective measures, they are probably more vulnerable to hacking. ...
  3 days ago

• Court Silences CIA Operative Despite Yellowcake Scandal

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 507
  Court Silences CIA Operative Despite Yellowcake Scandal : Via Threat Level . Valerie Plame Wilson cannot publicize details of her work as a CIA operative, even though a government official already outed her as an agent in an attempt to discredit her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, a federal appeals court says. Plame ...
  5 days ago

• Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 507
  Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate : Via Threat Level . An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online. ...
  5 days ago

• Study shows ID Theft risk climbs by five times after data breach

  
  LifeLock.com Promo Code — Authority: 116
  Data breaches have become a common occurrence. We post about them nearly weekly here at LifeLockPromotionCode.net. Now a recent study by Javelin Research, a financial services research firm, shows an alarming coorelation between those involved in massive data losses and ID theft victims.To start, nearly 1 in 9 people ...
  6 days ago

• A Scandal In East Anglia

  
  Tim Oren's Due Diligence — Authority: 464
  (With apologies to A. Conan Doyle .) Breaking, but not in the MSM just yet: A hacker (or leaker) has copied over 60Mbytes (compressed) of e-mail correspondence, documents, data files and programs from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU), the laboratory of Dr. Phil Jones, and one of the ...
  6 days ago

• On the T-Mobile Incident and Open Questions on Trading Personal Data Online

  
  Marco Casassa Mont's "Research on Identity Management" (Mirror) — Authority: 118
  There has been an incident this week where employees of T-Mobile have been caught selling customer data. On one hand this has shown that there is a thriving market for this kind of data … On the other hand, this has also highlighted “interesting issues as under the Data protection Act, it is a criminal offence ...
  6 days ago

• Effective Security Policy Messaging Important

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Christopher Burgess , Senior Security Adviser End users tuning you out? Here’s a three-step process for taking human factors into account in your security program (and even using them to your advantage). Let us begin with the premise that security policies exist to protect an entity’s assets as it ...
  1 week ago

• unbelievable

  
  the nutmeg grater — Authority: 423
  six months to report a very serious data breach. as i said, unbelievable. i know ive talked about it before, but im going to do it again. we have to encrypt everything with a social security # on it (well ANY personal data) if its going outside. we CANNOT use flash drives AT ALL (we used to be able to but no ...
  1 week ago

• Going Out On A Limb With Out Of Scope

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 600
  This week marks the debut of StorefrontBacktalks new PCI columnist, Walter Conway, and Conway debuts by trying to decipher encrypted tea leaves of the PCI Councils position on out-of-scope data. what does “the means to decrypt” include? We need, as always, to look at the Council’s intention and not just dissect ...
  1 week ago

• Privacy, Social Media, Technology and the Law

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker John Sileo — Authority: 112
  Can the Law keep up with technology? CNN has a new article that addresses this growing issue. Cases are continuing to pop up based on an offense or crime committed in cyberspace. Five years ago suing someone for allegedly slamming you on Twitter would have been unimaginable.  But just recently an apartment tenant is ...
  1 week ago

• T-Mobile Data Sold in the United Kingdom

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 438
  T-Mobile is the fourth-biggest wireless phone provider in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Recently, however, the company is suffering a string of public relations fiascoes. In the United States, there was the situation in which Sidekick phone users found that their information went missing — it ...
  1 week ago

• T-Mo UK selling user data like cheap narcotic…

  
  Gadgetsteria — Authority: 567
  Some people sell crafts. Some people sell services. Some people sell drugs while other people sell user data…waaait…what? Chances are your user data has been sold to the highest bidder — if you’re a T-Mobile UK user. While we’d like to believe carriers have our best interests in mind, we are always ...
  1 week ago

• Bright & Early: We Can Swing That Edition

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 477
  Good morning, Nashville. Metro Councilman Mike Jameson has suggested that the Metro Development and Housing Agency stop buying up all of the land around the proposed Music City Center until the project is actually approved . Some businesses targeted by MDHA aren’t going down without a fight, such as the Musicians ...
  1 week ago

• Out-of-Scope Wishful Thinking

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 600
  Isn’t it wonderful how many security vendors are so altruistic that they leap to the microphone to point out the failings of their industry? Somehow, though, solely to advance reality and context, they volunteer that this particular shortcomings don’t apply to their product or service. That vendor ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Electronic Communications, Privacy, Data Protection, and More — Authority: 116
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Increase Your Information Security IQ

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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