11 April 2012

Breaches epidemic despite efforts at compliance, says Kroll - Healthcare IT News


Healthcare Industry's Prioritization of Compliance Over Data Security Puts ...
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Carriers may turn off stolen phones to fight thefts - The News Journal


An employee demonstrates a Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Note smartphone at the company's Galaxy Zone showroom in Seoul, South Korea, on April 5. / SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg Mobile carriers led by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. agreed to disable ...

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Governments Increasingly Targeting Twitter Users for Expressing Their Opinion - PBS MediaShift


His crime? Tweeting a mock conversation with the Prophet Mohammed, an action which many called blasphemous. Though Kashgari was on his way to a country that would have granted him asylum, he transferred in Malaysia where, upon his arrival, ...

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Russia looks to ISPs to crack down on piracy - GigaOM


The ministry is trying to document the 'spread of illegal content in the local networks of Internet service providers,' Seralinov Jannat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told Gazeta.ru. According to him, each provider runs local file-sharing ...

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Martine Rolls: Online adventurers - The Bay of Plenty Times


MinorMonitor Surveys 1000 Parents of Children on Facebook, Shares Results on ...
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Data breach put 1.5M numbers at risk - Boston.com


Visa Inc. has dropped Global Payments, the card processor involved in a massive data breach from its registry of providers that meet data security standards, according to reports Monday, April 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Global Payments via PRNewsFoto, ...

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Utah Data Breach of 181000 Records Blamed on Configuration Error - Threatpost (blog)


Organizations that fall victim to data breaches typically are loathe to give up even a small morsel of information about the attack and where the breakdown in the defenses occurred. Such admissions are seen as a sign of weakness and also as attractive ...

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MasterCard, Visa probe data breach - Vanguard


By Emma Elebeke Visa and Master Card are said to be investigating whether a data security breach at one of the main companies that processes transactions improperly exposed private customer information, bank officials. The breach occurred at Global ...

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Court Rebukes DOJ, Says Hacking Required to be Prosecuted as Hacker - Wired News


By David Kravets Employees may not be prosecuted under a federal anti-hacking statute for simply violating their employer's computer use policy, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, dealing a blow to the Obama administration's Justice Department, ...

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FCC, Carriers To Fight Mobile Phone Theft - InformationWeek


Phone theft is a significant problem, especially in cities. Cellphones are stolen in more than 40% of all robberies in New York City, and 38% of all robberies in Washington, DC These stats are similar to those in other large cities. Real data loss ...

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Norway killer found sane in new examination - Seacoastonline.com


Breivik confessed to the attacks but rejected criminal guilt, saying he had acted to protect Norway from being overrun by Muslims by targeting the left-leaning political establishment he claimed had betrayed the country with liberal immigration ...

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Keeping Youth Drug Free, Safe - WBNG-TV


The KYDS Coalition brought parents, kids, and community members together, offering kids on spring break some education and activities to keep them safe and drug free. Kids made stress balls out of balloons and flour, and also colored in shirts with ...

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Identity theft among children on the rise: How to keep your kids safe - New York Daily News


'A large number of children, some as young as infants, have had their identities stolen, and their parents don't know about it,' Scott Morrill, manager of the Utah Attorney General's online Identity Theft Reporting Information System, told The Salt ...

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