“I don’t think its actually going to be quite 150,” says Rodriguez, director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. “It will be something close to that.” That’s because of the office’s funding level and the capacity of KPMG, the firm hired to conduct the audits, Rodriguez explains in an exclusive interview with HealthcareInfoSecurity
via Fewer Than 150 HIPAA Audits Expected.
President Obamas proposed fiscal 2013 budget calls for an overall 8 percent increase in spending for the Department of Health and Human Services, but a 5 percent cut in spending for the unit that enforces HIPAA
via Budget Cuts Would Hit HIPAA Enforcer.
All companies storing personal data on Massachusetts residents have just over a month to ensure that their contractors, suppliers, technology providers and other third parties comply with a provision of a state data breach law that went into effect in March 2010
via Final phase of Mass. data protection law kicks in March 1.
Tens of thousands of video conferencing setups, including some in corporate meeting rooms where the most confidential information is discussed, are vulnerable to spying attacks
via Video conferencing mistakes make espionage easy, say researchers.
Washington’s attorney general announced two new lawsuits against Adscend Media, a company that allegedly has been earning US$20 million a year using a Facebook scam
via Facebook, Washington state sue alleged ad scammer.
Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world’s foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month
via Hacking stunt: Stealing smartphone crypto keys using plain old radio.
The recommendation that users disable or delete the software is the takeaway from a surprise security advisory issued by Symantec late Tuesday, which warns customers to “only use pcAnywhere for business-critical purposes,” and even then, only after configuring the software “in a way that minimizes potential risks.”
The FBI is looking for a “geospatial alert and analysis mapping application” that will allow its Strategic Information and Operations Center SIOC to “quickly vet, identify and geo-locate breaking events, incidents and emerging threats
via FBI Seeks Data-Mining App for Social Media – Government – Security – Informationweek.
he Anonymous hacking group recruited unwitting accomplices in Thursday’s attacks against U.S. government sites
via Anonymous dupes users into joining Metaupload attack – Computerworld.
The FBI said it arrested a computer programmer in New York this week and charged him with stealing proprietary software code from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The software known as the Government-Wide Accounting and Reporting Program (GWA) handles all manner of U.S. government financial transactions
via FBI busts programmer for stealing US Treasury code.