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House technology subcommittee clears cybersecurity bill
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsBill was drafted to meet a need for more coordinated oversight.
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Congress Breached via P2P Filesharing…AGAIN!
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsThe House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the “Informed P2P User Act”, a law that supposedly makes it safer to use peer-to-peer, or P2P file-sharing software, an effort which is like banning mosquitoes from sucking blood. Just ain’t happening. The responsibility is that of the IT administrator who locks down the network to prevent the ins…
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Criminal enforcement of HIPAA still a new concept
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsThe recent criminal prosecution of three healthcare workers who inappropriately accessed the medical records of deceased KATV news anchor Anne Pressly shows that violating a patient’s privacy can have significant consequences.
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Schumer Moves to Clean Up Credit Reporting Ads
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsWe’ve all seen the TV commercial featuring the guys in silly costumes singing about free credit reports. U.S. Senator Charles E.
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Corporate Breaches Increase Chances Of Consumer ID Theft, Study Says
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsWhen their data is leaked by a business, individuals are four times more likely to suffer identity theft, Javelin study says
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Heartland Filing Contradicts Its Own Statements About Abandoning Retail Customers
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsProving that there’s never anything so bizarre in payment security circles that some vendor can’t upgrade it to surreal, Heartland Payment Systems and VeriFone this week issued dueling news releases.
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Data Breaches: Reality Vs. Perception
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsIn our ongoing saga of retail security “reality versus perception” discussions (Note: Always bet on perception. Reality is a nice guy who, in all fairness, is a loser), the question of whether data breaches are becoming less common keeps cropping up.
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Stolen laptop exposes 10,000 physicians names, addresses and Social Security numbers
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsAnthem Blue Cross Blue Shield data loss incident circa 2009-11-04
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Physicians still worried about EHRs disrupting work
Posted on November 4th, 2009 No commentsPhysicians have limited knowledge of the American Recovery and Reinvestment provisions, according to a recent online survey of 1,001 physicians, and they are still reluctant to adopt information technology. Ingenix, a healthcare IT company and consulting firm, is under the umbrella of UnitedHealth Group, conducted the survey.
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How Credit Freezes Protect Your Identity
Posted on November 4th, 2009 No commentsWhy credit freezes may help protect against identity theft better and more cheaply than credit monitoring…
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