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…
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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…
Healthcare breach reports continued to climb in March
Protenus has released their Breach Barometer report for March. The report is based on 39 incidents that reportedly affected 1,519,521 patients’ records. As noted in recent months, we’ve reached that unhappy stage where we are seeing an average of one or more breach disclosures every day. If this just represented greater transparency, that would be great, but it…
IDENTITY THEFT SERVICES: Services Offer Some Benefits but Are Limited in Preventing Fraud – GAO
It’s what some of us have been saying for quite a while. From their Highlights of a GAO report released last month: What GAO Found Identity theft services offer some benefits but have limitations. Credit monitoring helps detect new-account fraud (that is, the opening of new unauthorized accounts) by alerting users, but it does not…
IE: 2,224 data security breaches reported in 2016, says Data Protection Commissioner
John Kennedy reports: Reports of data breaches to see exponential rise once mandatory reporting rules under GDPR come into force, warns DPC Helen Dixon. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), Helen Dixon, has reported that the number of complaints over data privacy has increased from 932 in 2015 to 1,479 in 2016. In the annual report for…
Leak of diabetic patients’ data highlights risks of giving info to telemarketers
Personal and health information of 918,000 vulnerable seniors was exposed on the Internet for months by a software developer working on a project. No one would have even known about it if the leak hadn’t been found by a guy with “too much time on his hands.” Before you give your personal or health insurance…