Equifax Eyes Are Watching You–Big Data Means Big Brother

Posted by on May 21, 2012 No comments

It maintains information about people who share the same phone number or address, “non-obvious” relationships between individuals, loans for dental work, magazine subscriptions, rental history, real estate assets, investment wealth, retail purchasing, the type of federal tax return someone files, marital status, employment, utility payments, cable TV accounts, criminal records, debt-to-income ratios, changes of address, motor vehicle files, post office boxes, inferences about someone’s capacity to pay bills, predictions about someone’s propensity to pay, links to past and potential fraud crimes–and more

via Equifax Eyes Are Watching You–Big Data Means Big Brother.

Anonymous Takes Aim at Indian Government

Posted by on May 21, 2012 No comments

In retaliation against Internet Service Providers (ISPs) blocking some video-sharing and torrent websites like The Pirate Bay under Indian court orders, Anonymous, the “hacktivist” organization, today took down the websites of the ruling Congress Party and the Supreme Court of India.

via Anonymous Takes Aim at Indian Government.

PCI Council Launches Reseller Cert Program

Posted by on May 11, 2012 No comments

Channel partners honing their compliance skills will soon be able to add one more to their portfolio with the launch of a new Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council certification program specifically targeting integrators and resellers.

via PCI Council Launches Reseller Cert Program | Channelnomics.

Industry Debates Stage 2 EHR Rules

Posted by on May 11, 2012 No comments

Several healthcare associations are questioning another provision that would require hospitals and physician groups to conduct a security risk analysis that includes “addressing the encryption/security of data at rest.”

via Industry Debates Stage 2 EHR Rules – GovInfoSecurity.

Level 3 PCI Compliance Increases Slightly, Even As Its Population Grows

Posted by on May 9, 2012 No comments

The latest PCI compliance stats—out this week—show trivial changes from the prior report, with Level 2 and Level 3 retailers slightly increasing compliance. Level 2 went from 91 percent at the end of December 2011 to 92 percent as of March 31, 2012, and Level 3 also increased by 1 percent, from 58 percent to 59 percent. The largest chains, the Level 1s (processing more than 6 million Visa transactions annually), stayed exactly the same, at 98 percent.

via StorefrontBacktalk » Blog Archive » Level 3 PCI Compliance Increases Slightly, Even As Its Population Grows.

DHS: Gas pipeline industry under significant ongoing cyberattack

Posted by on May 9, 2012 No comments

There is now an ongoing and massive cyberattack targeting the American gas-pipeline industry, aimed at giving the attacker a way to gather sensitive information by compromising business systems and possibly even subverting industrial control systems

via DHS: Gas pipeline industry under significant ongoing cyberattack.

Facebook hacker comes clean on ‘what really happened’

Posted by on May 4, 2012 No comments

The hacker who stole Facebook’s source code has gone public with a deeper explanation of how he penetrated the world’s most popular social network.

via Facebook hacker comes clean on ‘what really happened’.

Microsoft detects new malware targeting Apple computers

Posted by on May 2, 2012 No comments

Microsoft has detected a new piece of malware targeting Apple OS X computers that exploits a vulnerability in the Office productivity suite patched nearly three years ago.

via Microsoft detects new malware targeting Apple computers.

ID thieves robbing the grave; 2.5 million dead hit annually

Posted by on April 23, 2012 No comments

Nearly 2.5 million dead people are victims of identity theft every year, according to a data analysis by fraud prevention firm ID Analytics being made public Monday

via Red Tape – Study: ID thieves robbing the grave; 2.5 million dead hit annually.

Utah’s Medicaid Data Breach Worse Than Expected

Posted by on April 12, 2012 No comments

Utah Department of Technology Services (DTS) reveals 780,000 individuals have been affected by the theft of sensitive Medicaid information. That’s far worse than initial estimates

via Utah’s Medicaid Data Breach Worse Than Expected – Healthcare – Security & Privacy – Informationweek.