In an article to be published Wednesday August 26, 2010 discussing the Pentagon’s cyberstrategy, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III says malicious code placed on a removable drive by a foreign intelligence agency in 2008 uploaded itself onto a network run by the U.S. military’s Central Command – source: Washington Post “That code spread …
Read more »I think we’re rapidly approaching a point in time where people will pay for privacy. I know that after a super-hot month of August with the house full of kids chain-watching Ratatouille, I would pay someone for some privacy. The privacy controls that governments are attempting to impose on social media and the technical safeguards that …
Read more »Assuming you knew why a data breach will happen, wouldn’t you take your best shot at preventing it? Consider this: Your security defenses don’t improve your understanding of the root causes of data breaches, and without understanding the root causes – your best shot is not good enough. Why is this so? First of all – …
Read more »Now it’s some lazy journalist at Information Week aiding and abetting the pseudo-statistics of of the Ponemon Institute – screaming headlines of the cost of data breaches of PHI – protected healthcare information According to Information Week; Analysis: Healthcare Breach Costs May Reach $800 Million Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health …
Read more »Aug 7, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.D.—U.S. Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR) and John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV) today introduced legislation to require businesses and nonprofit organizations that store consumers’ personal information to put in place strong security features to safeguard sensitive data, alert consumers when this data has been breached, and provide affected individuals with the …
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