From Information Security: Governmentwide Guidance Needed to Assist Agencies in Implementing Cloud Computing GAO-10-855T (pdf), July 1, 2010 Summary Cloud computing, an emerging form of computing where users have access to scalable, on-demand capabilities that are provided through Internet-based technologies, reportedly has the potential to provide information technology services more quickly and at a lower…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
AU: Online ID fraud losses explode to $1.3bn a year
Asher Moses reports: One in 10 Australian internet users have lost money to online identify fraud over the past year with losses totalling $1.286 billion, according to the VeriSign Online Fraud Barometer figures released today. The findings represent a significant increase on the figures reported in June by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which surveyed…
AU: Patients’ privacy put under threat
Anna Caldwell reports: The private details of Queensland Health patients are at risk of being lost or stolen and there are inadequate plans to deal with a major security breach. But the troubled department is racing to implement computerised medical records. The Auditor-General’s report into information systems governance and control has identified gaps in protocol…
Commentary: Is WellPoint blaming others for breach?
Steve Ragan has a statement from WellPoint that he posted on Tech Herald. While the company doesn’t deny that the actual cause of the exposure was a faulty security update, from there, it reads as if they are pointing fingers everywhere but at themselves. WellPoint mentions the role of the plaintiff’s attorney(s): The reason that…
UK: Secret report on ContactPoint database found ‘significant risks’ to security
Martin Beckford and Heidi Blake report: A secret report on Labour’s controversial child protection database found “significant risks” to security. The official study, which ministers refused to publish for more than two years, disclosed that “residual” dangers remained in ContactPoint despite efforts to make the system safe. It pointed out that security standards differed at…
WellPoint Security Breach Put At Risk Information For 470,000 Nationwide
The latest revelations on the Anthem/Wellpoint breach raise some questions for this blogger. Matthew Sturdevant reports that the recently disclosed Anthem breach may affect many more than the 230,000 recently reported: An online security breach put at risk the personal, financial and medical information of 470,000 WellPoint customers nationwide, including 5,600 in Connecticut, customers are…