Byron Connolly reports: Almost one in two Australian secondary and tertiary schools do not have an IT security awareness program in place and alarmingly, 53 per cent didn’t know what information was taken during a data breach, according to a study commissioned by Symantec.cloud. The study asked around 500 teachers and administration staff at 168…
Emobile, Meteor plead guilty to data legislation breaches
RTÉ reports: Two telecoms companies have pleaded guilty to multiple breaches of data protection legislation at the Dublin District Court and have been ordered to pay a total of €30,000 to two charities. The charges follow the theft of two unencrypted laptops, containing personal and financial information of customers, from the office of Eircom Ltd…
Domino’s India hacked, 37,000 user details leaked
One of the worlds largest fast food pizza company’s has been hacked in its Indian based division. The attack has been carried out by Maxney authorities Turkish Ajan Hacker Group and was uploaded to pastebin in 8 parts. The leak contains over 37,000 account details from the dominos.co.in website which also allows access to other domains internal based websites for administration only. These websites have been…
The Fourth Amendment and your medical records
FourthAmendment.com quotes from a new opinion from U.S. District Court in Maryland holding that there is no Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in medical records held by a doctor. The case is United States v. Mitchell. Oops: corrected the above as I had omitted a critical “no.”
HIV researcher warns against protracted data freeze
Tara Carman reports that researchers are concerned over a halt to sharing data in the wake of reports of inappropriate access: A freeze on access to medical data from the B.C. government has the potential to seriously undermine the health care system if it goes on too long, a prominent Vancouver medical researcher said Friday….
Texas Data Breach Amendment Takes Effect; Connecticut On Deck
Steve Satterfield writes: This week, the much talked-about amendments to Texas’s breach notice statute took effect. Wepreviously blogged about these amendments, which are unprecedented in scope. With the amendments, the Texas statute now requires entities doing business in Texas to notify “any individual” whose “sensitive personal information” is acquired in a breach (unless the information is encrypted). The statute makes…