Feds Say ChangeHealth Can File Breach Notice on Behalf of Doctors After All Changing your mind … is a federal agency’s prerogative, apparently. Normally under HIPAA, it is the doctor or hospital that has to file the breach notice and until this week, that was the fed’s (HHS) position for the ChangeHealth breach. However, smarter […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]White House Preps New Cyber Rules for Healthcare After ChangeHealth Breach Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber says that after a decade of pleading with hospitals to protect your data, they are getting ready to roll out regulations. The hospitals say don’t penalize us by making us protect your data; why do we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is one of my pet peeves. And this is not a mom & pop shop that does have the resources. Just bad management. The owner of CBS (yes, that CBS) and Paramount, National Amusements, disclosed a breach last week. Again, we are hearing about it from the Maine AG’s web site, not from them […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Joe Sullivan, Convicted Former Uber CISO, Speaks Out Sullivan spoke at Black Hat Europe. Unfortunately, he did not say much directly about the case because he is appealing it, but he did have some interesting thoughts about where CISOs are headed and what you should or should not do. I didn’t know this but he […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FTC Votes UNANIMOUSLY to Enforce Right to Repair As companies like John Deere and Apple fight to keep their exceptionally lucrative repair business to themselves, the Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously this week to enforce laws around right to repair. While this won’t eliminate all the barriers to users fixing stuff that they paid thousands […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You might think this is obvious, but just in case it is not, California wants to make this clear. It used to be, in California, that if you had sensitive data encrypted and that data was stolen, you didn’t have to tell people because, after all, it was encrypted. But there is a rub with […]
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