The Office Of Civil Rights (OCR) has been pretty quiet these last couple of years regarding HIPAA audits, but that may be about to change. OCR’s staff is small, so they have hired a contractor, FCI, according to the Federal Register. In an interview, deputy director Deven McGraw says that they will be starting up […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Price Waterhouse surveyed 500 business executives, law enforcement services and government agencies and here are some of the results: 28 percent say that their security leaders make NO presentations to the board ever 26 percent say that their boards receive a single security presentation per year. Neither of these answers warms my heart, but they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are reports in the news that Identity Theft Guard Solutions won the contract to offer identity theft protection for the 21.5 million victims of the second OPM breach. This is 90 days after the breach was disclosed. It is unclear how long it will be before people get letters and have the ability to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the Ashley Madison data is more widely circulated and people have a chance to digest it, consequences are beginning to add up which will have a negative impact on the parent company Avid Life Media, likely for years to come. Granted this is a somewhat unusual situation, so some of the consequences may not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Wyndham Hotel chain was hacked several times going back as far as 2012. The FTC came after the hotel chain using Section 5 of the FTC Act, claiming unfair business practices. Usually what happens in these cases – and there have been a number of them – is that the company and the FTC […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While hacking credit cards for fun and profit is still a popular pastime, two additional hacking models need to be considered. The first additional model is the Anthem Blue Cross or Office Of Personnel Management model. In those cases, hackers are looking to amass vast amounts of data on as many people as possible. They […]
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