Ellen Nakashima and Steven Mufson report: The United States and China have agreed that neither country will conduct economic espionage in cyberspace in a deal that addresses a major source of tension in the bilateral relationship. The pact also calls for a process aimed at helping to ensure compliance. Read more on Washington Post. Now…
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DoD Issues Guidance on Privacy Breach Notices
From the Federal Manager’s Daily Report: The Pentagon has issued guidance to DoD components on considerations for making public announcements regarding breaches of private information, an issue that has been much in the mind of the federal workforce in recent months following disclosure of two major cyber hacks of personally identifiable information, or PII, held…
DEFENSE CYBERSECURITY: Opportunities Exist for DOD to Share Cybersecurity Resources with Small Businesses – GAO Report
This is what I’ve been saying for ages – the government can and should do more to educate and share information with small businesses. From a new GAO report: The Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) has explored some options, such as online training videos, to integrate cybersecurity into its existing efforts; however,…
Health apps approved by NHS ‘may put users at risk of identity theft’
Charlie Cooper reports: Health apps accredited by the NHS may not be adequately protecting personal information from hackers, a university study has claimed. Experts in the UK and France subjected 79 health apps listed by the NHS’s ‘Health Apps Library’ to security checks. They found that around a third were sending identifiable information such as…
Audit finds inadequate cybersecurity at HealthCare.gov
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of AP reports that an audit by the Inspector General for Health and Human Services found serious security deficiencies in the system used to store data collected via healthcare.gov. The Obama administration said it acted quickly to fix all the problems identified by the Health and Human Services inspector general’s office. But the…
UK: Emails reveal how Rotherham Council bosses ‘covered up’ laptop theft details and didn’t even get a slap on the wrist from the ICO
Back in February, this site noted a report indicating that Roterham Council had covered up the theft of 21 laptops containing sensitive information about victims of child sexual exploitation. Now more details have emerged about the cover up. Chris Burn of The Star reports on documents obtained under Freedom of Information from the Information Commissioner’s Office….