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Google Gives You Free Airport Wi-Fi for the Holidays
Posted on November 12th, 2009 No commentsThe spirit of giving has hit Google. They are generously providing free Wi-Fi at 47 airports from November 10, 2009 to January 15, 2010
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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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Study Finds U.S. Small Businesses Lack Cybersecurity Awareness and Policies
Posted on October 28th, 2009 No commentsSmall business owners’ cybersecurity policies and actions are not adequate enough to ensure the safety of their employees, intellectual property and customer data, according to the 2009 National Small Business Cybersecurity Study.
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HHS Breach Notification Rules Again Under Fire
Posted on October 28th, 2009 No commentsThe Department of Health and Human Services should replace its controversial harm standard for triggering a personal health record data breach notification with a risk assessment approach that requires organizations to determine whether the data was actually viewed or acquired by an unauthorized person, according to the Center for Democracy an…
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Data breaches and identity fraud: what’s the connection?
Posted on October 21st, 2009 No commentsThree years of Javelin data suggest that individuals who recieve notifications that their data was breaches generally don’t think they are at higher risk. Three years of Javelin data also shows that those individuals really do have something to worry about. Data protection and fraud mitigation are complex topics, yet more-> they need not always be
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Lawsuit: A Heartland Manager Resigned Because Of PCI Compliance Issues
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No commentsAs the lawsuits involving Heartland’s massive data breach move through the court system, an unusual claim was inserted into a court filing. The Sept
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The Survey Says: 28 Percent Of Retailers Using Payment Data For Non-Payment Functions
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No commentsOfficially, Visa and other card brands “discourage” retailers from using card data for non-transaction functions, such as CRM or other customer identification programs. But many retailers continue to do the forbidden practice and to do so openly
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Does Visa’s Encryption Statement Offer A “Tacit Endorsement”?
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No commentsVisa’s just-announced best practices are designed to provide guidance and give tacit endorsement to existing end-to-end encryption and, to some extent, tokenization. Merchants are likely to see it as “something else to do” and as further evidence that the card brands will continue to go their own way relative to data security, despite the PCI DSS industry standards.But PCI Columnist David Taylor sees something else interesting here. “For the last 4-5 years, companies have been told that achieving PCI compliance is much easier if they segment their network.
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