The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, the government entity that manages the privacy of health care information that you share with doctors and others, has issued new guidance on ransomware. While technically, it only applies to organizations that they regulate, in reality, almost everything they said applies equally to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A recent Ponemon Institute study revealed what a lot of us have been saying for a long time. Despite spending millions of dollars, 79 percent of the IT and IT security staff reported that their ability to identify and stop threats are either non-existent, ad hoc or inconsistently applied throughout the enterprise. The companies participating […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IT World Canada ran an article the other day regarding the payment of ransom at the University of Calgary. The piece is almost an editorial as the writer beat the University up for paying the ransom. Here is the story that the article laid out. In June the University was infected with a “significant malware […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Target Board can breathe a little easier today – although they are not out of the woods yet – in that the shareholders who filed a series of derivative actions have agreed that the cases can be dismissed as long as they can come back for legal fees. The lawsuits claim that Target’s directors […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what has been a monument to how NOT to handle a data breach, Wendy’s has again revised the number of restaurants affected by hackers. Wendy’s initially refused to release any information about how big the hack was, although bankers were saying that this was hitting them harder than the Home Depot breach did. Then […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It appears that Google is getting serious about Android security. They have, for the past several months, been releasing patch updates every month – like other software companies. While I have no visibility to AT&T and Verizon, Sprint has been religious at pushing those updates out to my phone. This month they released patches covering […]
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