Today’s tube strike could cause a corporate data loss ‘timebomb’ as London-based employees work from home. Mark Darvill, director at AEP Networks, said that the industrial action by the RMT and TSSA unions will not only disrupt journeys to and from work, but will drive employees to take vast amounts of confidential data out of the office…
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Ireland: Company directors could be held liable for data breaches
Dick O’Brien reports: A leading security expert at Eircom has warned that company directors could soon be held liable for the loss of sensitive information through security breaches. Paul Dwyer, security GRC principal at Eircom, said that once the Irish government transposed the international Convention on Cybercrime into law, directors could be prosecuted if it…
Verizon PCI DSS Compliance Study: breached entities 50% less likely to be compliant
A new report from Verizon Business shows that following industry security standards can dramatically reduce such incidents. In a first-of-its-kind “Verizon Payment Card Industry Compliance Report,” the company examined compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which was created in 2006 to protect cardholder data and reduce credit card fraud. Company…
Hackers Steal $600,000 from Brigantine, NJ
Brian Krebs reports: Organized cyber thieves took roughly $600,000 from the coastal city of Brigantine, New Jersey this week after stealing the city’s online banking credentials. The break-in marks the second time this year that hackers have robbed the coffers of an Atlantic County town: In March, a similar attack struck Egg Harbor Township, N.J., which lost…
Anonymized health IT data still traceable, House panel warned
More coverage of the risks of de-identified patient data being reidentified. David Perera reports: As electronic health records start to become pervasive in physician practices–thanks in no small measure to federal incentives–there’s a growing worry that electronically-collected health data could violate individual privacy, even when the data has been stripped of personally identifiable information. Testifying…
Veterans Affairs ‘broken,’ says advocate concerned with privacy breach
David Pugliese reports: Sean Bruyea may not seem like an enemy of the state but when he leafs through the 14,000 pages of documents that Veterans Affairs Canada compiled on him, he sometimes gets that impression. Veterans Affairs bureaucrats monitored the Ottawa man’s media appearances and his advocacy activities before Parliament, in which he called…