Frederik Joelving reports: To a busy emergency physician, a split lip or a case of poisoning is just one of those things they deal with. But to a computer mining the patient’s medical history, it could be the last diagnosis needed to decipher a pattern of domestic violence. Now, a group of researchers at Harvard…
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700,000 Express Scripts members notified of extortion demands (update 2)
As previously reported here Express Scripts recently updated their breach report on the incident from 2008 involving an extortion demand. Now Dina Wisenberg Brin of Dow Jones Newswires provides some additional details, including the statistic that Express Scripts has now sent out approximately 700,000 individual notification letters, total. The company has not revealed how many…
IT security breaches In Canada more than triples in 2009
From a TELUS press release: A new study from TELUS in partnership with Rotman School of Management released today reveals a major increase in annual losses related to Information Technology (IT) security breaches. According to the study which surveyed more than 600 IT security professionals across the country: IT security breaches cost the average Canadian…
Florida man sentenced for ID theft
Richard L. Marzullo, 56, Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment yesterday by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young following his guilty plea to aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, interstate transport of stolen property and conspiracy, announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Marzullo admitted that he purchased…
Two Romanians to face phishing charges in US
Robert McMillan of IDG News Service reports: The U.S. Department of Justice has extradited two Romanians to the U.S., where they face charges in connection with a massive phishing scam. The two men, Petru Belbita, 25, and Cornel Tonita, 28, are accused of setting up fake phishing sites designed to steal user names and passwords…
New Arizona abortion laws halted
Casey Newton reports: A Maricopa County Superior Court judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday against new abortion restrictions passed by the Legislature, preventing two laws from going into effect today as planned. Judge Donald Daughton ruled that plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood established “a strong likelihood of prevailing on the merits” of…