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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Larry Ponemon surveys companies every year to see how cost of dealing with breaches is trending. This year shows, among other things, that it costs companies an average of $217 per record breached. That means, on average, a small breach of say 10,000 records still costs $2 million. If you assume his numbers are high, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Beacon Health System, the result of a merger of two hospitals in South Bend Indiana announced that their email system was breached and hackers had access to emails between November 2013 and Jan 26, 2015 – about 15 months. While allowing the hackers to roam through your system for 15 months seems long, it, unfortunately, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATED: 02 Jun 2015 2216 EDT The Senate, in a 67-32 vote, passed the same bill they were unable to pass before they went on vacation, restoring some of the expired provisions of the Patriot Act. The bill now goes to President Obama who said he would sign it. Gone is the bulk collection of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ABC News reported what we already knew and as Bruce Schneier aptly said – the TSA is security theatre. All show and not much substance. Homeland Security “Red Teams” were successful 67 out of 70 times at getting mock weapons and explosives through TSA checkpoints all over the country. Previously, TSA “fails” had been cast […]
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