Ken Kronstadt of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP writes: If you have turned on a television recently, you have likely seen advertisements for Wi-Fi-networked appliances and devices such as refrigerators or thermostats. While these devices represent a giant leap in consumer convenience, it is not difficult to imagine hackers ex-ploiting a security vulnerability in such a device…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Companies Fare Worse When the Press Exposes Their Problems Before They Do
An-Sofie Claeys, Verolien Cauberghe, and Mario Pandelaere have been conducting some interesting research on crisis management. Not surprisingly, they found that when entities disclosed first, even subsequent critical reports on their incidents had less impact than if critical reports appeared before the entity disclosed. Their studies were not addressing data breach disclosures per se, but the…
Cost of a Breach: Forensics and Notification
Protenus, who provide software to monitor, detect, and reduce insider mis-steps such as snooping and other egregious wrongdoing, has been writing a series of posts on the cost of a breach. In this week’s installment, they looked at the costs of forensics and notification. Considering I’ve recently been blogging about entities that don’t have insurance for breaches, some…
Short-term monitoring inadequate for Banner, Anthem data breaches – BizWest Editorial
If BizWest Media‘s editors think that what Banner and Anthem offered in the wake of their breaches isn’t enough, they’d likely be totally appalled that Athens Orthopedic Clinic hasn’t offered its patients any credit monitoring. Here’s how the BizWest Media editorial begins: Short-term monitoring inadequate for Banner, Anthem data breaches It’s not enough. Banner Health…
Omegle, the Popular ‘Chat with Strangers’ Service Leaks Your Dirty Chats and Personal Info
Swati Khandelwal reports: Have you heard of Omegle? The popular, free online anonymous chat service that allows you to chat with random strangers, without any registration. The service randomly pairs you in one-on-one chat window where you can chat anonymously over text or webcam. But, are your chats actually Anonymous? No, all your chats are recorded…
Amen, HIStalk, amen!
One of the more teeth-gnashing aspects of investigating and reporting on breaches is that I later see “mainstream” news outlets reporting on those breaches as though they had no information about them other than what the entity put out in their press release. So-called “news” outlets do not serve their readership well when they become complicit…