Cybersecurity: Progress Made but Challenges Remain in Defining and Coordinating the Comprehensive National Initiative GAO-10-338 March 5, 2010 Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 64 pages) Recommendations (HTML) Summary: In response to the ongoing threats to federal systems and operations posed by cyber attacks, President Bush established the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) in…
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Report confirms private banking websites are flouting client privacy
Tara Loader Wilkinson reports: According to a report published by Swiss research group MyPrivateBanking last week, 61% of banks do not offer secure web messaging. And nearly 60% do not give privacy warnings to users of their website about sending unprotected e-mails to recipients at the bank. […] More than half of banks offered a…
Feds indict couple again in theft, sale of patients’ data
Jay Weaver reports: Last year, they were charged with running a racket to pilfer patient records from Jackson Memorial Hospital to sell to lawyers for personal-injury claims. Now Ruben E. Rodriguez and wife Maria Victoria Suarez have been indicted again for paying an ambulance-company employee to steal information on patients transported to Miami-Dade hospitals and…
NHS in confidential data blunder in Cambridgeshire
Letters sent out to patients about the national NHS records database contained confidential data about other people, the BBC has learned. A review has taken place after letters containing personal information were sent to the wrong patients in Cambridgeshire, BBC Look East found. The letters contain details about which surgery the person attends and their…
CyTA employee and former policeman arrested in data theft
On February 24, an employee of the of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) and a private detective were arrested in connection with investigations into the illegal passing on of telecommunication personal data to a third party. As reported by Stefanos Evripidou: The information included incoming and outgoing calls and text messages for certain CyTA clients….
Gang stole names of dead babies to use in bank scam
A Nigerian gang which stole the identities of dead babies and then plundered bank accounts set up in their name was jailed yesterday. The gang of three, two men and a woman, stole 44 separate identities over 18 months to set up 100 bogus bank accounts. […] The trio operated throughout South Wales and in…