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Are You Smart Enough?
Posted on March 2nd, 2011 No commentsThe ITRC wants to know what you know! Please take a few minutes to take our quiz to help us help you! Click on the image to be taken to the quiz.
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Thieves Targeting Recycling Bins For Possible ID Theft
Posted on March 2nd, 2011 No commentsResidents in East Meadow, Long Island are being warned of thieves stealing from recycling bins placed outside their homes.
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Hospitality and food and beverage industries still targets of hackers
Posted on March 1st, 2011 No commentsIt should no longer come as a surprise that the hospitality and food and beverage industries are favorite targets of hackers. Indeed, some commentators have suggested that hackers view these industries as the low-hanging fruit.
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Mass General takes $1 million hit for losing 193 patient records
Posted on March 1st, 2011 No commentsFollowing closely on the heels of its first Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule fine, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has doled out a $1 million fine against Massachusetts General Hospital for a data breach involving 192 patients begin treated for infectious diseases.
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A Novel Data Security Law Proposed in Colorado
Posted on March 1st, 2011 No commentsIn Hawaii we have a proposed bill that would require breached entities to provide credit monitoring and call center services to impacted individuals. In my home state, Colorado, a legislator (Dan Pabon) has proposed a novel bill that takes a new approach to incentivizing companies to implement good security.
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RSA wrap-up: A view from the cyber trenches
Posted on February 28th, 2011 No commentsRSA's annual security conference highlighted an escalation of online hostilities, but it’s still not cyber war, federal officials said.
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Identify Theft, Financial Scams Top Internet Crimes List
Posted on February 28th, 2011 No commentsThe FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 300,000 reports of Internet crime in 2010, according to its annual report.
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Family names, some given names and a postcode and or a date of birth stolen from laptop at home
Posted on February 28th, 2011 No commentsDisability, Housing and Community Service data loss incident circa 2011-02-23
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Kids prime targets for identity theft
Posted on February 28th, 2011 No commentsIt's perhaps the most despicable form of identity theft; parents with bad credit hijacking their kids personal information to get loans or credit cards. State Police tell Eyewitness News these crimes are on the rise, and oftentimes the children are the last to know.
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Private Information At Risk After Hospital Files Were Stolen
Posted on February 26th, 2011 No commentsOn December 23, 2010, a truck operated by GRM Information Management Systems, an information storage organization based in Manhattan, was broken into while unattended by its driver and parked on a street in Harlem. The truck contained electronic files of some 1.7 million patients, employees and vendors…
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