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• Data Encryption Software Not Used? How Does 5 Years Of Credit Protection Suit You?

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  If youll recall, BlueCross BlueShield announced a data breach last month, when an employee lost a laptop with the information of all doctors in their network (apparently, something like 90% of all doctors nationwide).  While BCBS uses drive encryption software to secure data, it was in vain: the employee had ...
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• Data Security: 41% Of Employees Steal Corporate Data

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  A survey carried out in the US and UK has found that 41% of employees have willingly taken corporate information.  When one has a data breach due to accidental loss or theft, data protection solutions like full disk encryption can mitigate the ensuing developments.  However, what can one do when the threat comes ...
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• HIPAA violations get more expensive

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 133
  The feds recently published new regs that add some teeth to HIPAA’s health information privacy rules. The Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act significantly increases the penalties the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can level against employers and health care ...
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• Another Security Breach: Health Net of Northeast Inc.

  
  Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook — Authority: 127
  Another Security Breach: Health Net of Northeast Inc. This is from Mrs. Mecombers Scrapbook and is copyrighted material. Another Security Breach: Health Net of Northeast Inc.This is from Mrs. Mecombers Scrapbook and is copyrighted material. I don’t have anything to add. I’ll only get angrier than I am. This ...
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• Data Security: House Of Reps. Passing P2P Bill? Secure Federal File Sharing Act

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  A bill was introduced this week by Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee.  The bill, the Secure Federal File Sharing Act, is aimed at restricting the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) software by government employees and contractors. (If they could only do something ...
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• Driving brother Rahul - Priyanka shows how (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 20 (IANS) A smiling Priyanka Gandhi drove her elder brother and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to his constituency Amethi after landing at the nearest airport Friday - all the while keeping the media at bay.The charismatic Priyanka and Rahul reached the Fursatganj airport in Sultanpur district at ...
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• Priyanka drives brother Rahul in Amethi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 20 (IANS) Priyanka Gandhi took to the wheel even as elder brother and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi sat next to her after the two landed in his constituency Amethi Friday.Priyanka and Rahul reached the Fursatganj airport in Sultanpur district at around 11 a.m. After getting out of ...
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• Hard Disk Encryption: Health Net Revises Breach Figures Upwards - 1.5 Million Affected

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  Well, I guess sometimes you just have to go with your gut feeling.  Yesterday, I had made a comment on the Health Net data breach.  The breach occurred because a portable drive was lost (and, drive encryption wasnt used to protect the contents).  The figures of affected patients has jumped from 446,000 to 1.5 ...
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• Health Net healthcare data breach affects1.5 million

  
  DISC Infosec blog — Authority: 118
  Image via WikipediaAnother security breach related to healthcare organization which resulted in loss of patient data shows that healtcare organizations poor state of baseline security and simply... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Health Net Data Breach – 1.5 Million Records At Risk With Missing Portable Hard Drive

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  Members in 3 states going back to 2002 are at risk and will receive free credit services.  Recently Blue Cross was in the news for a similar type of incident with exposing provider information.  The hard drive was lost 6 months ago and is just now being reported so if it did fall into the hands of someone trying ...
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• German spy’s wife exposes his gay affair

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Munich (Germany), Nov.19 (ANI): A German spy has gone on trial in Munich accused of betraying state secrets after his wife discovered he was having a gay affair. The spy, a former soldier named in court only as Anton K., 42, began a relationship with a male translator after being posted to Kosovo in 2005 [...]
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• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• Drive Encryption: Health Net Loses Info On Half-Million Connecticut Residents

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  Health Net has announced the loss of a portable disk drive which has resulted in a data breach of 446,000 people.  Data security programs, such as full disk encryption from AlertBoot, were not used to secure the personal information.  This happened six months ago, and, boy, is Connecticuts Attorney General ...
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• Data Security: T-Mobile Experiences A Data Breach...But Not Really

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  There are many aspects to data security, like the use of drive encryption software , antivirus software, firewalls, etc.  However, the biggest and central one is monitoring.  Basically, making sure that things are going as planned, and looking to see if anything has gone awry.  Otherwise, one may end up ...
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• Drive Encryption Software: Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust Desktop Computers Stolen

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust in breach of the Data Protection Act.  The case just goes to show that its not only laptop computers that require hard disk encryption , but desktops as well. According to the Undertaking signed by the Great ...
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• Encryption Software: BNP Gives Laptop With Personal Information As Payment For Services Rendered

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  Or at least, thats the claim on one side.  On the other, accusations of theft.  Regardless, it seems that to me that data encryption would have been an ideal solution to this problem, especially given the fact that the BNP has been leaking party member information left and right. Laptop Given In Lieu of Payment ...
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• Hard Disk Encryption Not Used On Stolen Bloomsburg U Laptop?

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  Heres another story that shows how drive encryption software could have prevented a data breach.  Current and former students at the Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania are being notified of a data breach. The breach affects only students who took psychology classes taught by professor Julie Kontos, from spring ...
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• Laptop Encryption Software And Rickrolling Having Something In Common

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  What does laptop encryption software have in common with the cultural zenith that was, and is, Rick Astley?  Passwords. Rickrolling iPhone Worm Australians with jailbroken iPhones got the treat of a lifetime when their wallpaper got changed to that of a young Astley looking impishly serious (check out the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Data Breach Costs: Canadian Government Pays $751,750 For Data Breach

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  The Canadian federal government paid out $751,750 to approximately 120,000 people who were affected by a data breach on September 2003, when six computers were stolen.  The computers contained personal information but were not protected via drive encryption software . Six years for resolution.  That must be some ...
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• iPhone/iPod Touch Owners Rickrolled By ikee Worm

  
  great big geek — Authority: 122
  A self-propagating program believed to be the first iPhone worm, that changes an iPhones (or iPod Touchs) wallpaper to a picture of Rick Astley with the message "ikee is never going to give you up", has been unleashed in Australia. Known as "ikee" the worm only affects devices that have been jail-broken, have had SSH ...
  2 weeks ago

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