It’s that time of the year, and some firms and journalists have begun looking back at 2009. Here are some round-ups I’ve seen recently: Perimeter E-Security Exposes Top Ten Biggest Security Breaches and Blunders of 2009 The Year Of The Mega Data Breach 2009: a year of incident, loss, malware and ultimately education Ten Most…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
No law, no investigation. So change the law!
On August 28, Missouri’s new data protection law went into effect. Fat lot of good it did for past clients of Nationwide Credit Counseling. When their financial records, replete with personal information, were found in bankers boxes in a dumpster , were they notified of the breach? No. And was any action taken against the…
Plugging The Government’s Biggest Data Leak
Andy Greenberg reports: When David Ferriero was named head of the federal government’s National Archive and Records Agency last month, he didn’t just become America’s most important librarian. He also took on one of the toughest tasks in government IT today: plugging the source of a continual stream of information leaks, including what may have…
Computer security for Minnesota jobless benefits data is called weak
Julie Forster reports: The state agency that administers unemployment benefits is addressing concerns that it lacked adequate security controls for its computer system, leaving private information about applicants vulnerable to data breaches, according to a legislative audit report. The Dec. 3 report details the lack of controls with the massive Department of Employment and Economic…
Ca: Alberta health board cleared in records breach
Because we don’t have a privacy commissioner who actually — gasp — investigates breaches and issues findings, and all we have is HHS which doesn’t publish its findings and leaves us generally in the dark, this report out of Canada is especially interesting. The Alberta privacy commissioner’s office has found that the province’s health board…
Jon Stewart on TSA’s security gaffe
If you’ve been following the Transportation Security Administration’s gaffe in posting a manual online that was not securely redacted, you might enjoy Jon Stewart’s take on it all. I posted this to Chronicles of Dissent, but realized that heck, since it is a commentary on inadequate security…. enjoy! The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon…