I started covering Aadhaar years ago on PogoWasRight.org as a data protection mega-disaster waiting to happen. Those early posts are no longer available online, but I’ve continued to watch for news on its implementation and concerns. And while India’s government keeps reiterating that everything is secure and fine, I keep seeing breach/leak reports. So I…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Healthcare records for sale on Dark Web
Ryan Francis reports on the cost of a medical record on the dark web, and it’s nice to see Flashpoint agreeing with what some of us have been saying for a while now – that the cost is generally about $1 per record – not the $200 figure you may have read in earlier reports…
Young cyber criminals motivated by peer respect and accomplishment
The National Crime Agency has today published research into how and why some young people become involved in cyber crime. The report, which is based on debriefs with offenders and those on the fringes of criminality, explores why young people assessed as unlikely to commit more traditional crimes get involved in cyber crime. The report…
No Business Associate Agreement? $31K Mistake
From HHS: The Center for Children’s Digestive Health (CCDH) has paid the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $31,000 to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and agreed to implement a corrective action plan. CCDH is a small, for-profit health care provider with…
BakerHostetler 2017 Data Security Incident Response Report Based on 450 Incidents
I don’t post links to most reports with data breach analyses because some are so flawed that they just perpetuate errors some of us have tried to correct. But BakerHostetler handles a lot of breach incidents for their clients, and they’ve issued a report based on 450 incidents they’ve handled. Some of their findings seem quite…
He’s got access to your students’ info and is trying to decide what to do. Now what will YOU do?
So far, I have not attempted to validate the claims in a post spotted on a dark web forum, below. I am posting it in the hopes that it will make some teachers – and school administrators – think about when was the last time they did a password reset, and might this be a good time to…