Copenhagen, September 4, 2013 –Secunia, a leading provider of IT security solutions that enable businesses and private individuals to manage and control vulnerability threats
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Advocate Health Care marks the second largest HIPAA data breach since the breach notification rule was implemented in 2009, losing more than 4 million patient records in a theft of four unencrypted computers.
Speaking at the Symantec Symposium in Sydney today, the company’s information security practice manager Adrian Covich said that organisations are treating the security of their servers like laptops.
Privacy reform changes are on the horizon, and passing mandatory breach notification legislation looks to be all but a technicality, leading Symantec principal consultant John Reeman to issue a sobering warning: Businesses are out of time.
I have just read the Scottish Borders Tribunal Decision and the reasons why the Tribunal quashed the commissioner’s £250,000 Monetary Penalty Notice (MPN).
“I suspect that there will be further security revelations appearing in the media over the course of the next few months as further investigations into the documents from NSA leaker Edward Snowden come to light.
It’s an issue that affects every sector and every profession at every level. Earlier this year, the Federation of Small Businesses claimed that cybercrime was costing UK small and medium enterprises £785m a year
A survey of 300 information security professionals in Europe finds companies unwilling to make data breaches public
Today, an article on TheRegister caught my eye. It was also reported on Bloomberg. Two ex-employees of a Wall Street trading company – Flow Traders – are facing criminal charges for leaking trading evaluation algorithms from their previous employer.
When we discuss exploit prevention, we often talk about ‘targeted applications.’ This term refers to end-user applications which can be exploited by hackers for malicious purposes. There are a few requirements that define these applications.