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Can you protect yourself on Social Media?
March 1, 2010 - 9:44 pm
Tags: Antivirus software, Facebook, LinkedIn, malware, MySpace, network security, Phishing, security, Social network
Posted in Identity theft, Social network, antivirus, social media | No comments
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One of the greatest challenges to privacy and security in the next several years is Social Networks and Social Media. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and others can be the downfall of valuing information. The ability to share and provide information is completely the opposite of network security requirements. This is really [...]
When will Vendors provide Risk Assessments of their products?
February 17, 2010 - 11:22 pm
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Systems, Apple, CIO.com, Cross-site scripting, Flash, Google, Microsoft, Operating system, security
Posted in Compliance, Hacking News, Security Assesment, Supplier Security, Web Security, antivirus, risk assessment | Comments Off
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If you drive a car and every week you have to get something fixed it would prove pretty annoying, disgusting, outrageous and you probably you would never buy that model again and probably wouldn’t by from that manufacturer either. So why do we accepts buggy software that is vulnerable to things like cross [...]
What is the value of a Data Breach?
January 27, 2010 - 9:33 pm
Tags: Citibank, Data Breach, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Ponemon Institute, Pretty Good Privacy
Posted in Compliance, HIPAA, Hacking News, PCI, Security Assesment | Comments Off
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SC magazine just reported that the Ponemon Institute has determined the cost of a data breach is $204 per record. “Data breaches last year cost organizations $204 per exposed record on average, which represents an almost two percent increase over 2008, according to the fifth annual “Cost of Data Breach” [...]
Ponemon Institute Cyber megatrends – Some Additions Needed
November 28, 2009 - 7:17 pm
Tags: Cloud computing, Computer security, security
Posted in Compliance, Corporate Stupidity, Could Computing, Outsourcing, Unstructured Data, Web 2.0 | Comments Off
Ponemon Institute recently released their Cyber megratrends as listed below. While I agree with these I think there were a couple that could easily be added to the list. First, I would either add or modify Web 2.0 into Web 3.0. Lets look to what is going to happen versus what is happening. Incremental change [...]
HIPAA Vendor Compromised Healthcare Records
November 12, 2009 - 8:46 am
Tags: Aetna, Health care, Health insurance, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, security
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This is story that is several months old, but as I came across it, i thought it would make a good point. A vendor handling healthcare records has lost social security numbers of people in March of 2009. In this case, Health insurer Aetna, Inc., is reportedly providing 65,000 individuals with free credit monitoring [...]
HIPAA Compliance Data Breach with a Foreign Supplier
November 3, 2009 - 8:14 am
Tags: Compliance, HIPAA, Supplier
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Recently, the Economic Times Report in India discussed a successful “Sting operation by a UK agency in which some health related data was bought from a medical transcription company” . What this means is all that perosnal and HIPAA confidential data that was being transfered for transcription got stolen in the most likely scenario. There [...]
IPhone Apps Every Road Warrior Entrepreneur Needs
October 22, 2009 - 4:36 am
Tags: airport delay, AroundMe, Business, data loss, Google, Google Map, network solutions, reQall, security, Twitter
Posted in Entrepreneur | Comments Off
The Blackberry has been the mainstay of the business world for years. But as we know, the IPhone is eating away at market share. There are over 75,000 apps for the IPhone now and growing steadily. For those who have Blackberry Thumb, you can probably look forward to IPhone Index Finger at some point in [...]
Information Devaluation Through Phishing
September 25, 2009 - 3:55 pm
Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Phishing, social media, Social network, Twitter
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Information Devaluation Through Phishing
The value of information has been decreasing over time. How do you see this isn the real world? There are two ways, one can be seen from the user perspective and the other from the attacker/bad guy perspective.
From a user point of view, the most obvious method to see information [...]
FTC’s Additional Rules for HIPAA Security
August 23, 2009 - 3:24 pm
Tags: Federal Trade Commission, Health care, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, security rule
Posted in Compliance, Government Security, HIPAA, Security Assesment, risk assessment | Comments Off
FTC’s Additonal Rules for HIPAA Security
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a rule which gives more scope to the data breach notification rules as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The addition targets companies that provide health info in an online storage facitlity. Things like Google Health or Healthvault would [...]
Credit Card Theft Put Miami on the Map
August 19, 2009 - 10:37 am
Tags: credit card theft, Debit card, hacking, Hannaford Bros. Co., Heartland Payment Systems, Miami, PCI, Social Security
Posted in Compliance, Corporate Stupidity, Government Security, Hacking News | 1 comment
Miami is a fun place to live and work (there are actually people who work here). Its a great vacation spot, people enjoy the nightlife and now we have something else to crow about. The largest credit theft ring was based here!
According to Bloomberg, “Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old Miami resident, and two hackers living “in [...]
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