A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years federal probation and ordered to pay $183,000 in restitution for taking part in a cyber-attack on Koch Industries in Wichita that was sponsored by the collective known as Anonymous. U.S. Attorney Barr Grissom made the announcement yesterday. Eric J. Rosol, 38, Black Creek, Wis., pleaded guilty…
Month: December 2013
NYS Comptroller finds IT security deficits in towns of Babylon and Salina
Every so often I post audit reports from the NYS Comptroller’s Office. Last week, the office posted two completed audits worth noting here: The Town of Babylon was audited for the period January 1, 2011 — July 31, 2012. In addition to significant concerns about the town’s financial health conditions and other matters, one of…
FTC to Host Spring Seminars on Emerging Consumer Privacy Issues
The FTC has announced its agenda for spring 2014. Of particular note for this blog, one of the three privacy items on its agenda is consumer-generated and controlled health data – information provided by consumers to non-HIPAA covered sites, apps, and/or devices: Consumer Generated and Controlled Health Data – Date and location TBD Increasingly, consumers are…
Vodafone Iceland breached, customer details, SMSes stolen
Michael Lee reports: Vodafone Iceland is now in the middle of an investigation into how its website was attacked and customer data information, including SMS messages, were leaked to the public. On November 30, the company’s Icelandic website was defaced by attackers and subsequently taken offline. At the time, Vodafone did not believe that any…
Social media and patient privacy – a nurse leader's investigation
Nursing Careers Allied Health has an article on patient privacy breaches when health care professionals use social media. Perhaps the most concerning finding of the study they discuss is that most nurses did not even think that what they were doing was a breach of privacy. From the article: In the Nursing Times study, 27 per…
Over half of Austin, Texas departments don’t even have policies on collecting, storing, or accessing PII – city auditors
Summary from Protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Audit by City of Austin auditors (November 2013): The objective of this audit was to evaluate the process for protecting PII that is collected and/or stored by the City. The audit scope included the City’s policies and procedures related to the protection of PII for Fiscal Year…