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Ashley Madison Hack Provides IT Pros More Hints On What Not To Do

As researchers continue to review the data dumps from the Ashley Madison breach, there are lessons to be learned from what has been found. While Ashley Madison claimed to have good security, the evidence does not support that.  For example, the VPN password from the Internet to their servers was Pass1234, according to one article […]

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The Cost Of Not Following The HIPAA Rules For One Firm – $750,000

Cancer Care Group, an Indianapolis based Oncology practice learned a lesson the hard way. They allowed an employee to have an unencrypted laptop and a server in his car, from which both computers were stolen. They discovered that the computers contained protected health information – social security numbers and insurance data for 55,000 patients. The […]

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Boards Still Not On Board With Cyber Security

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 […]

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Government Employee Use Of Underground IT 10 Times Private Sector

Skyhigh Networks, a cloud security product vendor, did an analysis of data from government employees on cloud service usage. They say that the average public sector organization uses 742 cloud services, of which 60 are sanctioned.  That means that typical organization uses 682 services that no one has looked at the security of – or […]

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IRS Breach Grows – Do They Really Know The Answer?

The AP is reporting that the IRS didn’t really know how many taxpayers had their information stolen by hackers who used the Get Transcript web site. Originally, the IRS said that hackers tried to get information for about 200,000 taxpayers and were successful in getting information for 100,000 of them.  Originally, they said the hack […]

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The Consequences Of Not Conducting Cyber Due Diligence

As I have talked about before, the PNI division of Staples provides digital photo kiosks and online printing to the likes of Costco, Walgreens, CVS and Walmart and announced they had been breached in July of this year.  This resulted in all of these customers taking their photo processing sites off line. Costco had previously […]

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