The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is notifying 30,000 patients of a data breach after an unencrypted laptop was stolen from a faculty member's home.
"Without combining relevant data sets impacting the network, security professionals will fail in characterizing threats and targeted intruder activity," says Ed Stoner, a senior Carnegie Mellon researcher.
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, security and privacy leaders need to forge ahead with initiatives that were left in limbo while the court weighed the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has released a new security guide for small and midsized businesses. Simon Rice of the ICO discusses the guide and how to use it to avoid being breached.
Hacktivist attacks are on the rise. So how should organizations respond? ISF researcher Gregory Nowak offers unique advice about the role communications plays when hacktivist threats emerge.
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle a HIPAA case stemming from a relatively small breach. Federal authorities listed numerous security shortcomings at the department, which oversees Medicaid in the state.
A cancer center recently discovered patient data was embedded in PowerPoint charts accessible via the Internet. What can organizations do to prevent this kind of data exposure?
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents in healthcare and other sectors, including a PowerPoint breach affecting Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center patients.
Marcus Ranum isn't shy about saying online authentication methods are outdated and insecure. Passwords will get breached, but organizations can do more to protect their users and online databases.
Brokers and insurers have upped their marketing efforts to get enterprises to purchase cyber insurance, even though policies could be risky for sellers and buyers. See 10 considerations you should mull before buying cyber insurance.
Gartner's Peter Firstbrook, to illustrate the vulnerability of IT systems, cites research that pegs at about 400 days the average time a targeted virus remains undetected on a computer. And, he says, that doesn't speak highly of the current offerings from security vendors.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is notifying 880 patients that some of their personal information may have been exposed when it was inadvertently embedded in PowerPoint charts posted on two websites.
It's the everyday attacks, not the Flames, that are most likely to put an organization's IT infrastructure in jeopardy. Here is advice for how organizations can staff up and improve cybersecurity.
Emory Healthcare in Atlanta faces a class action lawsuit seeking more than $200 million in damages following a breach involving 10 missing unencrypted backup disks.
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