Kelly Jackson Higgins writes: Among the unsettling results in the final report, released today, from the Social Engineering Capture The Flag contest held in August at Defcon: Security companies were just as susceptible to social engineering as nontechnology firms, Internet Explorer 6 was still in use at 65 percent of the Fortune 500 companies targeted…
Man Gets 6 Years in Prison for Laundering $2.5 Million for Carders
Kim Zetter writes: A California man who served as a lynchpin for transmitting stolen money to hackers and carders in East Europe and elsewhere was sentenced on Thursday to 6 years in prison for conspiring to launder money. Cesar Carranza, 38, also known as “uBuyWeRush,” ran a legitimate business selling liquidation and overstock merchandise online…
HOW many patient privacy breaches per month?
As regular readers know, I tend to avoid blogging about commercial products and am leery about reporting results from studies that might be self-serving, but a new paper from FairWarning has some data that I think are worth mentioning here. In their report, they provide some baseline data on how many patient privacy breaches…
Lost in transit, Thursday edition
Through its lawyers, Rhode Island-based Benefit Concepts, Inc. recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a package containing employee payroll checks and a CD with copies of the payroll checks went missing. According to the notification letter, their vendor, CompuPay, had sent the package on July 19 via FedEx and it should have…
Pointer: Senate report on S. 139
The report on S. 139, introduced by Senator Feinstein, is available here (pdf). Three Republican senators express concerns in the report.
August VA report reveals no smoking guns
The Department of Veterans Affairs has posted its Monthly Report to Congress on Data Incidents for August 2010. As in the past, there are a number of mis-mailed prescriptions or incidents involving one patient being sent another patient’s medication. Most incidents during this period were of low to moderate risk to patients, and…