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MARAD Celebrates the Opening of West Coast Ship Recycling Facility
Posted on February 22nd, 2011 No commentsU.S. Maritime Administrator (MARAD) David Matsuda has joined California state and local officials in a ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opening the first ship recycling facility on the West Coast.
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US government sets up office to oversee online trusted identities program
Posted on January 12th, 2011 No commentsThe Obama administration creating a new office within the Department of Commerce to oversee implementation of its trusted identities in cyberspace strategy. The new National Program Office will support the National Strategy for Trusted Identifies in Cyberspace (NSTIC), a draft of which was issued in June last year by White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt
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Obama Signs Red Flags Exemptions Bill
Posted on December 26th, 2010 No commentsPhysicians, Attorneys, Many Hospitals No Longer Must ComplyPresident Obama on Saturday signed legislation that exempts certain businesses, including physician practices and apparently most hospitals, from the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule.
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Laptop Theft Nets Data On 800,000 Doctors
Posted on October 15th, 2009 No commentsThe stolen laptop contained personal data on nearly every physician in the country.
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Feds crack down on medical ID theft and Medicare fraud
Posted on October 15th, 2009 No commentsHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Assistant Attorney General Tony West are urging seniors to take steps to avoid medical identification theft and Medicare fraud.
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Heartland Update: Judge to Hear Motions to Dismiss Class Action Suits
Posted on September 9th, 2009 No commentsAttorney: Discovery is “the Biggest Battlefield”Preliminary legal hearings have begun in the class action suit against Heartland Payment Systems, the U.S.-based payments processor that was breached in 2008 More than 30 financial institutions from 22 states have joined the lawsuit against Heartland, which is the largest data breach on record, with a reported 130 million credit and debit cards stolen.
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Privacy experts see room for improvement from Obama
Posted on September 9th, 2009 No commentsPrivacy watchdogs today will give the Obama administration mixed reviews on its early performance for safeguarding privacy, civil liberties and the nation’s cyber infrastructure. …
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DuPont sues employee for trade secrets data breach
Posted on September 9th, 2009 No commentsIndustrial giant DuPont has been hit again by a malicious insider.
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Hacked server exposes 20 years worth of students Social Security numbers
Posted on August 21st, 2009 No commentsUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMASS) data loss incident circa 2009-08-21
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Analysts forecast a doubling of healthcare IT market in APAC countries
Posted on August 21st, 2009 No commentsFrost & Sullivan estimates the Health Information Technology market by revenue in 2008, in APAC (Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Australia) was close to USD5.04 billion with an annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.8 percent from 2005-2008. Although the APAC healthcare IT market represents currently only 2.1 percent of the total healthcare market, it is very likely that the figure could double if not triple that in the next 10 years, according to Frost and Sullivan analysts.
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