There’s a new Ponemon study out today, “Health Data at Risk in Development: A Call for Data Masking.” I haven’t read it yet, but you can read the press release from Informatica on The Medical News for a quick overview of the survey.
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UK: Hailsham hacker ordered to pay back £124,000
Ben Parsons reports: A computer hacker from Hailsham who set up frauds to feed a gambling habit has been ordered to pay more than £100,000. Alistair Peckover – described by police as an “obsessive loner” – used websites including Google and BT to steal people’s bank details. […] Peckover, who previously lived in Broadfield, Crawley,…
Cal.6th: There is a federal constitutional right of privacy in medical and psychiatric records
From FourthAmendment.com: There is a Griswold constitutional right of privacy in medical and psychiatric records which can only be disclosed when there is a compelling state interest, which the court finds here in a SVP [Sexually Violent Predator] case. People v. Gonzales, 2011 Cal. App. LEXIS 91 (6th Dist. January 27, 2011) Read more on FourthAmendment.com. From the…
Congress Has The Sense It Should Enact A Comprehensive Data Security Law
Joseph Lazzarotti writes: Together with some other U.S. Senators who have offered data security laws in recent years, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced S.21 on January 25. The bill, a “sense of Congress” bill, urges the passage of a comprehensive law to address cybersecurity, without making any changes to current law. This bill is important in that it…
(follow-up) HuskyDirect.com site still down, some victims report fraud
As a follow-up to a previously reported breach involving a hack of HuskyDirect.com, there are now some reports suggesting that the data may have been misused. Back on January 11, U.Conn had posted a notice to its web site: The UConn Co-op was informed by its vendor that there has been a data security incident involving…
28 million Plenty of Fish users’ personal details hacked – report (updated)
The founder and CEO of dating site Plenty of Fish reports that the site has been hacked and users’ names, email addresses, and passwords may have been acquired. Whether PayPal account information and other personal details were also acquired is uncertain and depends on whose version of the hack you read. It’s also uncertain whether…