Peter Carey and Keith M. Gerver of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, write: When President Obama signed into law the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, which was designed to facilitate information sharing on cybersecurity threats between the public and private sectors, proponents hailed it as “our best chance yet to help address this economic and national security priority in a…
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Lamar Smith Seeks OPM Response on Cyber Posture, Data Breaches
See? This is why I get confused by our government. Why is the SCIENCE committee writing to OPM about its breaches? Is it just letter jealousy because every other committee has, too? I cannot think this is a good use of resources. Scott Nicholas reports: House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has asked acting Office of…
Doctor devises new database methodology to thwart hackers and end big data breaches
Bill Siwicki reports: Longtime healthcare and technology veteran William Yasnoff, MD, has created a personal grid tactic for tuning relational databases to make it harder for hackers to steal large sets of medical records. And Yasnoff, a managing partner at NHII Advisors, said that hospital CIOs and CISOs or technology vendors can use the personal…
Almost half of Irish businesses would hide data breach from customers
Sam Pinder reports: In a release set to worry many customers 46% of companies surveyed in Ireland indicated they would not disclose a data breach to impacted customers or suppliers. Ward Solutions, an Irish security provider, has revealed the results of a new survey that found almost half of Irish businesses wouldn’t disclose a data…
Should you pay a hacker’s ransom?
Carl Herberger of Radware writes: If someone locked down your pacemaker, what would you pay to regain control? If hackers took over a cockpit or locomotive, what would you pay for restitution? This is the future of ransomware that we’ll almost certainly see if the evolution of these threats holds course. Any time human safety…
US govt bank insurer ‘covered up China hack to protect top boss’
Shaun Nichols reports: The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – a government agency tasked with safeguarding citizens’ bank accounts – deliberately covered up a cyberattack by China to protect its incoming chairman. This is according to a damning report from Republican members of the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, who slammed the bank…