In February, CVS was ordered to pay a fine of 2.5million dollars by the FTC. This fine was because their employees threw out personal information about patients. Who knew poor recycling programs could cost so much? HIPAA has been around for a number of years but not until recently did we see that it has [...]
Posts Tagged ‘data theft’
HIPAA Assessments are the next wave
Posted: 12th July 2009 by admin in Compliance, Government Security, HIPAA, Security AssesmentTags: data theft, hipaa security, Managed Vulnerability Scanning, Website security
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Laptop Encryption – Serious lack of security
Posted: 30th April 2009 by admin in Hacking News, Managed SecurityTags: antivirus, data theft, firewall, hacker, laptop encrption, pgp, security
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I believe that more personal information has been stolen than there are actual people in the US. How much was stolen from the government would prove a nice study. And has anyone in the government actually been fired? So the employee lost the laptop. Do you blame the employee or the agency for not educating [...]