An interesting article pointing out the way crooks use that 3-digit code on the back of your credit card was published in the Newark Advocate Saturday.
Archive for the ‘Privacy and Compliance’ Category
Identity Theft: Fraudulent Use of the CVC
Monday, February 19th, 2007VA Suspends Medical Research Following Most Recent Breach Until Security Certification Is Obtained
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Saturday, 2/17/07, it was widely reported that the U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA) was suspending “activities at seven specialized research centers across the country after an unprotected computer hard drive disappeared from one of the facilities in Alabama last month.”
VA Suspends Medical Research Following Most Recent Breach Until Security Certification Is Obtained
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Saturday, 2/17/07, it was widely reported that the U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA) was suspending “activities at seven specialized research centers across the country after an unprotected computer hard drive disappeared from one of the facilities in Alabama last month.”
Privacy: How to handle individual access requests in the UK in compliance with the Data Protection Act
Friday, February 16th, 2007In many countries, such as in all 25 of the European Union states and within Canada, just to name a few, individuals have the legal right to request from organizations a verification of whether or not the organization has information about him or her, and organizations must provide to individuals, upon their request, a copy of their corresponding personal information in an easy-to-understand format, within a reasonable period of time from the request.
Privacy Breach, Hackers and Lawsuits: Iowa Department of Education, Microsoft and Perkins Omelettes; Oh My!
Thursday, February 15th, 2007There’s been enough interesting information security and privacy news here in my own frigid (subzero) snowy back yard in central Iowa to keep me from looking beyond the state for discussion material. Well yes, I did look beyond anyway…what I found will wait until another day.
Yesterday was interesting in that the Iowa Department of Education announced a security breach into their GED database and the Microsoft versus Comes/Iowa class action lawsuit was settled out of court.
HIPAA: Privacy and the Press
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007An interesting editorial ran this past Sunday in the Mason City, Iowa Globe Gazette about HIPAA, “The Price of Privacy: HIPAA has far-ranging implications”
The title intrigued me. Yes, indeed there will be far-ranging implications to effectively start handling protected health information (PHI) in ways that will protect privacy.
HIPAA: Privacy and the Press
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007An interesting editorial ran this past Sunday in the Mason City, Iowa Globe Gazette about HIPAA, “The Price of Privacy: HIPAA has far-ranging implications”
The title intrigued me. Yes, indeed there will be far-ranging implications to effectively start handling protected health information (PHI) in ways that will protect privacy.
Privacy Breach: FBI Loses Laptops Each Month Despite 2002 Audit Telling Them To Improve Practices
Monday, February 12th, 2007Today the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released the “The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Control Over Weapons and Laptop Computers Follow-Up Audit” report.
As you can tell by my post title, this should be a very embarrassing report for the FBI.
Privacy Breach: FBI Loses Laptops Each Month Despite 2002 Audit Telling Them To Improve Practices
Monday, February 12th, 2007Today the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released the “The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Control Over Weapons and Laptop Computers Follow-Up Audit” report.
As you can tell by my post title, this should be a very embarrassing report for the FBI.
Privacy Breach: Johns Hopkins University Lost Personal Information on 135,000 Individuals
Sunday, February 11th, 2007There now seem to be so many privacy breaches that it is hard to choose which one to discuss…
Last Wednesday, 2/7, Johns Hopkins University reported personal information on 135,000 employees and patients on nine backup tapes were missing that had been given to a contractor, Anacomp Co. Inc., to make microfiche backups.
