Henry Ford Health System in Michigan notified HHS that a computer stolen in August contained protected health information on 520 patients. In an October 10, 2011 statement on their web site, they writ Required Substitute Notice: Infectious Diseases Patients’ Health Information Compromised PATIENT HOTLINE NUMBER: (866) 523-6770 Oct. 10, 2011 Henry Ford Health System is…
Month: October 2011
Would a federal data breach law really be too costly for the private sector?
Are you curious about the cost of a data breach notification law? Here’s the analysis of S. 1151, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011, proposed by Senator Leahy. It appears that the biggest added cost to the private sector would be on improving security and not from breach notification since 46 states already…
PayPal executives’ contact information posted on Pastebin
In what looks to be the first of a number of “name and shame” postings, an individual or individuals posting as “PAYFAIL” have uploaded some personal information on dozens of former and current PayPal executives. In the press release, PayFail writes: In the wake of major corporations trying to silence the voices of those who dare…
Bunch of defaced sites by @ColdHackers
Cold Hackers have been busy over the last year or so with over 3000 attacked websites they have been targeting mainly Turkish websites and also others in what could be seen as a cyber defacement battle that is constantly going. All defacements can be seen on Zone-H @Coldhackers on twitter
Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar Richard Clarke Calls Out China as Major Source of Cyber Security Hacking, Espionage
WALTHAM, Mass.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Bit9 Inc., the market leader in adaptive application whitelisting, today released a video from Richard Clarke, a member of Bit9’s Board of Directors, the former Cybersecurity Czar for President George W. Bush and a noted expert on cyber war and counter-terrorism, in which Clarke identifies China’s government and its industries as a…
China suspect in US satellite interference – i call bullshit
WASHINGTON — NASA satellites were interfered with four separate times in 2007 and 2008, possibly by the Chinese military, according to a draft of an upcoming report for the US Congress. The latest draft of the report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said the computer hackers behind the interference gained the ability…