While the OPM continues to muddle around in dealing with their breach and telling the public what happened, more news stories are coming out. First, the White House ordered agencies to tighten things up in a security sprint. While using agile terminology is nifty, my guess is that most of these agencies are more familiar […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Gene Kaspersky, head of the Russian anti-malware vendor and security research labs reported yesterday that the malware that infected his labs last year was also found … drum roll … at the hotels for the delegates to the Iranian nuclear talks (see article). Kaspersky reported yesterday (see article) that their lab was the victim of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The government seems to be avoiding telling us what information was taken. This could be because they don’t know – or because they do know. One speculation that keeps coming up, and that the OPM has not denied, is that the hackers got SF-86 data. If that is true, that is a problem. I will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is common, if not automatic, for companies that have their information systems breached to offer credit monitoring services, and this includes medical record breaches. Consumers can also pay companies like Lifelock to provide the same services. The question is do they work and the answer is, for the most part, not really. Brian Krebs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Columbia Casualty paid Cottage Health System a little over $4 million after a breach in December 2013. Columbia wants their $4 million back, plus attorney’s fees and expenses because, they say, Cottage “did not follow minimum required practices for protecting information and did not truthfully attest to its security controls” (see article). Here is more […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]News sources around the country are reporting that the Office Of Personnel Management was breached and it likely was breached for a long time. The OPM provides HR services for executive branch agencies and provides services like doing security background checks for the DoD and others. The OPM is releasing very few details at this […]
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