Senator Richard Blumenthal Introduces Online Security Bill
Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, introduced a new bill Thursday that aims to protect citizens’ personal information from online data breaches. The bill would also punish companies...
View ArticleUnderstanding And Selecting A Database Security Platform: Defining DSP
From the folks at analyst firm Securosis comes the next blog post in its “Understanding and Selecting a Database Security Platform” series. Adrian Lane writes: As I stated in the intro, Database...
View ArticleImportance For Healthcare Security Pros To “Speak” Finance
As the number of healthcare data breaches continues to snowball, executives put in charge of safeguarding protected health information (PHI) can’t keep up with the risks inherent with increased...
View ArticleSmall Businesses Are More Vulnerable To Attacks
If you run a small business, and think that none of your data was of interest to a hacker, consider this: what if a hacker could take stolen bank account or credit card information from your computer...
View ArticleWhy Optimism Can Be Detrimental to Security
Why do executives make the wrong security decisions? Generally, bad security decisions are made for the same reasons that other bad decisions get made: inability to predict the future, failure to...
View ArticleUK Big Business Hit Hard By Cybercrime
Hacking attacks against Blighty’s top firms hit a record high according to figures for 2011. On average, each large organisation suffered 54 significant digital assaults in that 12-month period, twice...
View ArticleUtah Governor Fires Tech Director, Brings In Cyber Security Czar
Gov. Gary Herbert apologized to the 780,000 victims of the health data security breach on Tuesday. To restore the public’s trust, he announced Tuesday that he fired Department of Technology Services...
View ArticleGuidelines Bill Is Introduced For Data Security Breaches
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) introduced a bill on behalf of himself and four other Republican senators setting national standards for how companies inform individuals of a breach of security related to...
View ArticleData Breach At B.C. Institute Of Technology, Unauthorized User Accessed...
B.C. Institute of Technology have discovered a security breach in which an unauthorized person accessed a computer server containing personal information of patients at the student health clinic on the...
View ArticleNo Questionable Calls Here: The March Madness Meets Higher Education Data...
March Madness is here! Yesterday, the NCAA Selection Committee selected 68 teams to participate in this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. While fans across the country are sneaking...
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