Tag archive for ‘data breach’
Tip of the Week: Research
This latest tip is an oldie but a goody: do your research. The latest Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach Study has many helpful pieces of information, summarized, which help emphasize some of the damage vectors that are actually affecting businesses–not in theory, but in practice. There are many guides and tools available (try a [...]
Rip of the Week: South Carolina Hospital Breached by Laptop Theft
Another hospital has suffered a costly and dangerous data breach. This one, it turns out, actually happened a few months ago. WSPA reports that Spartanburg Regional Hospital in Spartanburg, SC, has warned “potentially thousands” of patients that their personal information could be at risk thanks to a stolen laptop. An employee’s work laptop was stolen [...]
Rip of the Week: Cord Blood Registry Notifies 300,000 After Unencrypted Tapes and Laptop Stolen
Unencrypted data storage tapes and a laptop were stolen from an employee’s car, leading the Cord Blood Registry to notify 300,000 people that their data may be at risk. Paul McNamara summarizes at NetworkWorld, with thanks to Redemtech for the tip. The break-in occurred on December 13, 2010 and CBR, based in San Francisco, mailed [...]
Annual Cost of a Data Breach Study Released: $7.2 Million Per Breach
The Ponemon Institute has released their annual Cost of a Data Breach Study. As usual, it’s a nice, concise trove of useful information. Symantec completed their acquisition of PGP over the past year, so the formerly PGP-sponsored study is now Symantec-sponsored. Symantec’s press release and study download page, as well as a blog post by [...]
Rip of the Week: Salvation Army Stolen Laptop Contains Information About Mercy Recipients
This Rip of the Week has good news and bad news. First, the bad news. The Salvation Army in Union, SC was broken into. Three times. In two months. In the latest burglary, a laptop was stolen, which contained information about the people the Salvation Army was helping. News Channel 7 reports, and thanks to [...]
New Survey: 9 out of 10 Security-Related Employees Have “No Idea” of Breach Costs
Computerworld has published an interesting article by Jaikumar Vijayan regarding yet another survey with disturbing findings. The survey polled 430 members of the Oracle Application Users Group (OAUG) and was conducted by Unisphere Research and sponsored by Application Security, Inc. It included “developers and programmers, database and systems administrators, systems architects and analysts and professionals [...]
Hack Case Study: You Talk Too Much
The Wall Street Journal gives very interesting look at a rather clever attack vector for cyber criminals. M.P. McQueen reports on a giant international cyber-theft ring bent on raiding bank and brokerage accounts. That’s nothing new. How they did it, however, is fodder for the latest discussion at the water cooler (for those types who [...]
Rip of the Week: All We Are is Breach in the Wind
No laptop involved on this one, but here’s a very interesting breach case coming out of Indiana. Literally, it might be coming out of Indiana, depending on which way the wind is blowing. Law.com reports:
An Indiana adoption lawyer whose client files were scattered in the wind after his adult children left boxes of them [...]
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