Martin Beckford and Heidi Blake report: A secret report on Labour’s controversial child protection database found “significant risks” to security. The official study, which ministers refused to publish for more than two years, disclosed that “residual” dangers remained in ContactPoint despite efforts to make the system safe. It pointed out that security standards differed at…
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WellPoint Security Breach Put At Risk Information For 470,000 Nationwide
The latest revelations on the Anthem/Wellpoint breach raise some questions for this blogger. Matthew Sturdevant reports that the recently disclosed Anthem breach may affect many more than the 230,000 recently reported: An online security breach put at risk the personal, financial and medical information of 470,000 WellPoint customers nationwide, including 5,600 in Connecticut, customers are…
FTC Obtains Court Order Halting International Scheme Responsible For More Than $10 Million In Unauthorized Charges On Consumers’ Credit and Debit Cards
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has halted an elaborate international scheme that used identity theft to place more than $10 million in bogus charges on consumers’ credit and debit cards, pending a trial. More than a million consumers were hit with one-time charges of $10 or less, and their…
Information Security and Privacy Controls Over the Airmen Medical Support Systems
Information Security and Privacy Controls Over the Airmen Medical Support Systems Federal Aviation Administration Report Number: FI-2010-060 Date Issued: June 18, 2010 From Results in Brief: The names, addresses, Social Security numbers, medical data, and other PII of airmen are not properly secured to prevent unauthorized access and use. We found serious security lapses in…
White House seeks comment on trusted ID plan
Grant Gross reports: The White House is seeking comment on a draft plan for establishing a trusted identity system online, with the goal of making Internet transactions more secure and convenient. Howard Schmidt, the White House cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to President Barack Obama, released a draft version of the National Strategy for Trusted…
Update: CNET retracts article on Android app privacy threat
Ed Burnette reports: When a company writes a white paper they send out a press release to get as many news sites as possible to mention the report in their own stories. This strategy worked all too well on Tuesday when security firm SMobile Systems published a scary sounding report about Android apps. […] It…