Security breaches among healthcare organizations are soaring. That’s the conclusion of the Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security
via Medical data breaches soar, according to study.
Security breaches among healthcare organizations are soaring. That’s the conclusion of the Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security
via Medical data breaches soar, according to study.
AT&T on Monday acknowledged an organized attempt to hack information on as many as 1 million AT&T wireless customer accounts, but the company said no accounts were breached
via AT&T says hack attempt affected up to 1 million customers.
While the healthcare industry moves to invest billions into electronic health records, a steady trail of breaches and broken promises of security is starting to take its toll on patient trust.
via Healthcare breaches: Do they even matter?.
The hard drive, taken home by a physician, was encrypted, but the password was written on a piece of paper that also went missing
via UCLA Health System is offering 16,288 patients protection services following a breach of information.
OCR reported a total of 364 such breaches, up from 345 in its previous post in October. The 364 breaches have impacted 18,190,451 persons in breaches reported by covered entities from September 22, 2009—the day prior to the effective date of the Breach Notification Rule—to September 14, 2011
via HIPAA.com – HITECH Act Breached Individuals Skyrocket in Latest OCR Web Site Posting.
A security penetration tester discovered a major flaw in Facebook that could allow a person to send anyone on the social-networking site malicious applications
via Researcher finds major flaw in Facebook.
Zions Bancorporation has set up a massive repository for proactively analyzing a combination of real-time security and business data in order to identify phishing attacks, prevent fraud and ward off stealthy hacker incursions known as advanced persistent threats.
via Bank adopts ‘security data warehouse’ to fight persistent security threats.
Google paid out a record $26,511 in bug bounties to researchers who reported some of the 18 Chrome vulnerabilities patched today.
via Google pays record $26K in Chrome bug bounties.
Last week, two experts with knowledge of Nasdaq OMX Groups internal investigation said that while attackers hadnt directly attacked trading servers, they had installed malware on sensitive systems, which enabled them to spy on dozens of company directors
via Nasdaq Server Breach: 3 Expected Findings – Security – Attacks/breaches – Informationweek.