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Vermont Department of Labor details data security breach at third party Vendor

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Dissent

America’s Joblink Alliance – a provider of the nationwide web-based database Joblink, which is used by the State of Vermont – has notified the State that the job seeker functionality of its website was compromised by a malicious software. The Joblink system, which is also used by nine other states, is a standalone system and…

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New Mexico passes data breach notification and protection bill

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Dissent

Erich Falke writes: Then there were two. On March 16, 2017, the New Mexico state legislature passed a bill requiring that New Mexico residents be notified if their “personal identifying information” was affected by a breach of electronic data. Upon signature of the bill, New Mexico will join 47 other states requiring such notification, and the only…

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No, you can’t defend your reputation if it means revealing PHI without the patient’s consent

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Dissent

Here we go again, it seems. No matter how irate you may be a patient’s bad review and no matter how unfair you think it may be, no, you cannot just reveal their protected health information without their consent – even if they revealed some of it themselves.  Patrick Danner reports: A San Antonio doctor…

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Central Huron Health Records Snooping Case Prosecuted

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Dissent

John Chippa reports: A Justice of the Peace in Goderich has handed down the stiffest fine to date in Canada for a health privacy breach. A university student who was on an educational placement with the family health team in Central Huron has been ordered to pay a $20,000 fine and a $5,000 victim surcharge…

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Russian Hacker “Kolypto” Who Worked on Citadel Trojan Extradited to the US

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Yesterday, a Russian national accused of helping develop the Citadel banking trojan was arraigned in front of a US judge for the first time, after being extradited from Fredrikstad, Norway. The man’s name is Mark Vartanyan, 28, known online as Kolypto. According to US authorities, Vartanyan allegedly developed, improved and maintained the…

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Justice Department charging Russian spies and criminal hackers in Yahoo intrusion

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Dissent

Update: The DOJ’s press release can be found here and the indictment can be found here. Ellen Nakashima reports: The Justice Department is set to announce Wednesday the indictments of two Russian spies and two criminal hackers in connection with the heist of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014, marking the first U.S. criminal cyber…

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