From the press release: The slowdown in the global economy has certainly not translated into a corresponding slowdown in criminal efforts to compromise personal information, according to Risk Based Security, Inc. The total number of records exposed during the first 9 months of 2011 is 176,385,870 compared to 88,473,589 records for all of 2010. An…
Author: Dissent
123456, Wednesday edition
Khadra Glass in Lebanon makes some interesting-looking architectural glass. What doesn’t look so good is their info security. Via Cyber Wars News, a data dump of 20 names, usernames, and clear-text passwords. Really really really sadly, 17 of the passwords are 123456. How can people who are so creative with their art be so uncreative…
OCR Announces HIPAA Audit Program
Joseph Lazzarotti writes: Today, the Office for Civil Rights formally announced it is implementing the audit requirement under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, in Section 13411 of the HITECH Act. The agency confirmed that it is piloting a program to perform up to 150 audits of covered entities to assess privacy and security compliance, and that the pilot phase…
(update) 'No identity theft in Tallaght data breach'
Niall Hunter reports: The Data Protection Commissioner has said no evidence has emerged of patient identity theft or the selling of patient data taking place as a result of a major medical data breach at Dublin’s Tallaght Hospital. During the summer, the Commissioner started investigating a major data protection breach arising in relation to the…
(update) Anonymous admits leaking personal info on 16,000 Finns
Anonymous has taken responsibility for the personal information of some 16,000 Finns ending up on a file sharing site on Saturday, and has additionally made public the membership application database of the Kansallinen Vastarinta (the online magazine of the Finnish militant Neo-Nazi organization Suomen Vastarintaliike) website. […] According to the Helsingin Sanomat, the published information seems…
How Much Is Your Identity Worth?
This may come as a blow to the narcissists among us, but your identity isn’t worth very much these days. Indeed, you might get more using the per pound formula. Brian Krebs reports: How much does it cost for thieves to discover the data that unlocks identity for creditors, such as your Social Security number,…