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FTC staff report signals shifting privacy compliance and enforcement risks
Posted on January 9th, 2011 No commentsLate last week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a highly-anticipated staff report on privacy entitled “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change.” The report… proposes a new privacy framework for businesses and policymakers which is intended to be adopted…
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Red Flags Rule Clarified
Posted on January 9th, 2011 No commentsHowever, while the clarification could exempt parties such as attorneys, physicians, dentists, health care providers and others from the Red Flags Rule, it does not create an outright exemption for these or any other service provider or industry.
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Data Breaches Stabilize in 2010, But There’s an Asterisk
Posted on January 8th, 2011 No commentsIn banking/credit/financial, the number of reported breaches slipped slightly to 54 from 57 in 2009, though the number of records exposed rose to 4.85 million from 8,364. In the business category, which includes merchants and processors that suffered payment card data breaches, reported breaches increased 34% to 279 from 208 in 2009
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Red Flag Rule on ID theft takes effect, with narrower application
Posted on January 8th, 2011 No commentsFewer businesses appear to be affected by the new federal Red Flag Rule, which took effect Dec. 31, 2010.
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Report: Military and government data breached 104 times in 2010
Posted on January 8th, 2011 No commentsThere is no central repository for incidents, so breaches are probably much more widespread.
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As HHS Ramps up Health IT, IG Takes Close Look at EHR Security
Posted on January 7th, 2011 No commentsThe Health and Human Services Department’s inspector general plans to take a cold, hard look at the department’s privacy and security policies with a particularly close eye on initiatives of the HITECH Act, which enshrined health IT practices into HHS regulation.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 use-after-free Vulnerability
Posted on January 7th, 2011 No comments(added January 7, 2011) A full-content feed is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.atom
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662 Major Data Breaches in 2010, More Go Undisclosed: Report
Posted on January 7th, 2011 No commentsThe actual number is considerably higher because current regulations in the United States don’t require all data breaches to be disclosed
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Schwartz On Security: First, Know You've Been Breached
Posted on January 7th, 2011 No commentsSpain’s national aeronautics institute found three Mariposa botnet infections on internal PCs, thanks to constant testing. But when it comes to breaches, many organizations still have their heads in the sand.
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Report: U.S. troops likely victims of identity theft
Posted on January 6th, 2011 No commentsAmerican servicemen and women may be overly exposed to the threat of identity theft because they are often required to give out personal information such as Social Security numbers in their work, a report by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York says.
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