Andy Greenberg reports: Over the past year America’s hotels have had some uninvited guests: a wave of increasingly sophisticated invasions by organized cybercriminals. That’s one finding of a report that cybersecurity researcher Nicholas Percoco plans to present Tuesday at the Black Hat security conference in Arlington, Va. His data shows a spike in hacking incidents…
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UK: Incidents of identity theft up by 32pc
Justin Harper reports: The recession has led to a surge in financial fraud with identity theft up by almost a third, latest industry figures have revealed. A worrying trend is emerging where criminals take over the running of your bank account and transfer funds into an account they have set up to accept these bogus…
HIPAA complaints decreased significantly in 2009
The following is cross-posted from PHIprivacy.net: Dennis Melamed provides monthly HIPAA complaint statistics based reports by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). It seems that not only did breach reports in general decline in 2009 relative to 2008, but privacy and security complaints to HHS also declined. Melamed reports: OCR received 7,116 complaints in…
The State of Computer Security in the UK
eSecurity Planet reports: British security consulting firm 7Safe and the University of Bedfordshire have released the UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010, which looks at the current state of computer security in the UK through an analysis of actual data breaches. Key findings include the fact that 69 percent of data compromises occurred in the…
Reported breaches decline in NYS in 2009
Yesterday, as part of Data Privacy Day, New York Governor David Paterson issued a proclamation that included some statistics on New York State: “More than 1.1 million records of New York State residents were impacted by over 400 data breaches in 2009, highlighting the need for vigilance among all entities that handle personal identifiable information…
Personal data stolen? Don’t count on being told promptly.
Andrea Rock of Consumer Reports highlights one of the findings of the new Ponemon report: Not only are data breaches from criminal attacks on U.S.-based companies’ financial and customer data on the rise, but your odds of being promptly informed if you’re a breach victim aren’t very high, according to a new data breach report…