Evan Schuman discusses a judge’s dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems over on StorefrontBacktalk, here, that is well worth reading.
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
WV: Policy to wipe old state computers is working, lawmakers told
Phil Kabler reports: A random audit of state computers up for sale through the Surplus Property division found that an initiative to assure that all hard drives are wiped clean is working, a report released Tuesday shows. Chief Technology Officer Kyle Schafer told a legislative interim committee that the policy was adopted in 2006, after…
Verizon Business Issues 2009 Supplemental Data Breach Report Profiling 15 Most Common Attacks
Verizon’s press release: The latest in the Data Breach Investigations Report series by Verizon Business security experts provides enterprises with an unprecedented look at the 15 most common security attacks and how they typically unfold. In the “2009 Supplemental Data Breach Investigations Report: An Anatomy of a Data Breach,” Verizon Business security experts tap the…
The Merchants Strike Back?
David Navetta has a thought-provoking article over on InformationLawGroup that begins: With the recent news of several restaurants teaming up to sue point-of-sale system provider Radiant Systems (a copy of the complaint can be found here) for failing to comply with the PCI Standard, it appears that some merchants may be in a mood to…
NZ Privacy Commissioner annual report finds security gaps
The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, Marie Schoff, has presented the annual privacy commissioner’s report for the period ending June 2009. The report (pdf) indicates that privacy concerns are on the increase, particularly with respect to businesses and the Internet. From the report, the section on portable storage devices [PSDs] in the government sector: Our survey…
Malware rebounds as cause of data loss
The 2009 CSI Computer Crime and Security survey identified a number of shifts in significant cybersecurity threats this year. Malware infections jumped to 64% from 50%, reversing a dip in the number of companies experiencing malware infections that started in 2005. That year, the figure was 74%. Other significant changes were an almost doubling in…