Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
ID Experts today announced RADAR (HITECH Risk Assessment, Documentation and Reporting), the industry’s first expert software tool to measure a data breach incident’s risk index (IRI) by combining the severity of the episode and the sensitivity of the exposed data to quantify the incident’s overall harm ...
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Healthcare organizations that fall under the definition of HIPAA covered entities should be very aware of their obligations under the data breach provisions of the HITECH Act. The reason being that there are now very substantial penalties for disregarding the security and privacy regulations, for lax ...
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Symantec released their Global Internet Security Report for 2009 which explores in great detail the causes of data breach incidents. It finds that hacking attacks are responsible for the majority of personal identity records exposed in 2009.
"In 2009, 60 percent of identities exposed were compromised by ...
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
by Doug Pollack
This past week, the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) released a groundbreaking document that is aimed at assisting the Chief Financial Officer of major corporations and organizations in managing the financial risks inherent in protecting an organization from ...
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
by Doug Pollack
Federal agencies and regulators announced this week that LifeLock will pay $12 million to settle a complaint that it used false and misleading claims in its advertising. $11 million of the settlement will be paid to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and $1 million to ...
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
It was reported today in Finextra that US judge Andrew Guilford has concluded that "Lifelock....has been employing unfair business practices by placing fraud alerts on customer credit files it maintains."
Data breach incidents have been on the rise this year. Typically a credit monitoring offering is provided to the ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
By Rebecca Seaman
Remember the classic “Nigerian 419” scam; where a rich Prince or Bank Executive from a foreign country just needed your banking information to facilitate a transfer of funds? In exchange for your help, you would receive a percentage of those funds; Gratis. And just like that, you could ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
by Doug Pollack
The Attrition.org site has now re-emerged as DataLossDB. Their mission is described as follows on their site:
"DataLossDB, formerly the Attrition.org, Data Loss Database Open Source, is an research project aimed at documenting known and reported data loss incidents world-wide. ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
By Rebecca Seaman
By now, most savvy consumers are aware of Phishing Scams: emails supposedly sent from one of the entities we do business with asking us to verify our personal information by clicking on a link in the body of the email. We know that if our creditors or banking ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
By Rebecca Seaman
A modified bill that would allow victims of ID Theft to recoup costs in federal court and which would impose harsher restrictions on cyberattacks passed in the Senate this week. The bill, known as the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act, still needs to be approved by the ...
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