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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