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Discover to get $5M from Heartland for ’08 data breach

compliancesoftware — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:40:38 +0000

Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the payment processor last year. In a brief statement on Wednesday, the Princeton, N.J.-based Heartland said the settlement …

PCI DSS 2.0 – Emphasis on Card Data Discovery (CDD)

compliancesoftware — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:21:57 +0000

“They’ll say, ‘we found data on the most obscure parts of our network, we had no idea it was there,’” Russo says. “We need some methodology to find cardholder data.” Recommendations for that will include data-loss prevention technologies or discovery …

Healthcare Breaches Spin Out Of Control

compliancesoftware — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:09:50 +0000

If the past week is any indication and I’m afraid it is, health care companies are doing an abysmal job at protecting personal health care data.This evening the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing announced that state officials …

DHEC notifying South Carolina clients of personal information breach |

compliancesoftware — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:50:29 +0000

According to Hunter, private information of more than 1,800 people was included on DHEC documents that were discovered by a third party in a public, paper recycling container behind the DHEC building on Bull Street in Columbia. This third party …

Hospital can’t account for keys to bins of patient records for shredding – Friday, March 19, 2010 | 2:01 a.m. – Las Vegas Sun

compliancesoftware — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:36:16 +0000

But state health authorities have discovered an unknown number of unidentified people have keys to locked bins at the hospital where patient information sheets are deposited for shredding. UMC officials did not know who had keys to the bins, nor …

Wyndham hotels hacked again

compliancesoftware — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:26:12 +0000

Hackers broke into computer systems at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts recently, stealing sensitive customer data. The break-in occurred between late October 2009 and January 2010, when it was finally discovered. It affected an undisclosed number of company franchisees and hotel …

PCI 2.0 could mandate automated cardholder data discovery #PCI

compliancesoftware — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:58:27 +0000

Version 2.0 could mandate automated cardholder data discovery. One change I anticipate is mandating the use of automated cardholder data discovery tools. I say that for a couple of reasons. First, the Council has been encouraging QSAs to use data …

Credit-Card Security: Monitoring – BusinessWeek

compliancesoftware — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:14:19 +0000

Many businesses are familiar with the PCI Security Standards Council’s requirements, yet many card fraud incidents go undiscovered for long periods of time. In fact, according to Verizon’s 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report, 75% of compromises were discovered at least …

IBM Discovers Encryption Scheme That Could Improve Cloud Security, Spam Filtering

compliancesoftware — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:21:57 +0000

A researcher at IBM reports having developed a fully homomorphic encryption scheme that allows data to be manipulated without being exposed. Researcher Craig Gentry’s discovery could prove to be important in securing cloud computing environments and fighting encrypted spam. via …

“Thousands” Of Medical Records Discovered In Recycling Bin

compliancesoftware — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:59:31 +0000

Anyone who peered inside the mixed paper bin at the Dupont Recycling Center this afternoon got an eyeful. Files, in plain sight, which authorities say contained sensitive medical and identity information. “Upon finding those, they discovered it wasn’t a small …