Nice to see on data on this. Tim Wilson of Dark Reading writes: Some 63 percent of K-12 schools say they have experienced at least two security breaches in the past year, according to a new study, and their IT administrators are struggling to find the resources they need to keep up with security tasks….
Category: Of Note
Lone Star Business Solutions exposes thousands of employees and applicants to ID theft
Let the naming, shaming, and flaming begin! A call to FactFinder 12 leads to the discovery of thousands of personal documents dumped in a Wichita alley. Lone Star Business Solutions, a third party payroll and human resource company for Lone Star restaurants, dumped the documents in a large dumpster behind its building in downtown Wichita….
GAO Report: “Information Security: IRS Needs to Enhance Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Taxpayer Data”
A new GAO report indicates that the IRS still needs to do more to improve security. The summary of their report, emphasis added by me: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a demanding responsibility in collecting taxes, processing tax returns, and enforcing the nation’s tax laws. It relies extensively on computerized systems to support its…
Yet another Health Net breach raises disturbing questions
More is starting to come out about the Health Net breach involving missing server drives that we first learned of earlier today in a press release from CT’s Attorney General. His press release was followed by a press release from Health Net. Now a few more details have emerged: Kathy Robertson of the Sacramento Business…
Audit finds confidential data on NJ state computers sent to auction
Angela Delli Santi reports: Taxpayers’ Social Security numbers, confidential child abuse reports and personnel reviews of New Jersey workers nearly went to the highest bidder after the state sent surplus computers out for auction. Nearly 80 percent of surplus computers in a comptroller’s office sample had not been scrubbed of data before being shipped to…
MetLife fined and ordered to provide credit monitoring to consumers after breach
WREX follows up on a breach they exposed in January 2010: An insurance company faces a fine and other stipulations for improperly throwing away people’s private insurance documents in Loves Park.MetLife has been ordered to provide credit fraud protection for everyone affected by the mistake and has to pay a $75,000 fine to the State…