Tag archive for ‘encryption’
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 [...]
Hoping to crack a password? Try looking under the keyboard.
Keith Ferrell has a decent blog post at InformationWeek concerning one of the oldest problems in the IT security world: password management. The post is focused particularly on the age-old problem of the Post-It Note. An alarming percentage of people, including IT workers, write their passwords down in clear, plain text, right on a sticky [...]
HIMSS Report Reveals False Sense of Security for Patient Data
A report from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) reveals some interesting new findings about the state of data security in the healthcare sector and, as most would agree, healthcare-related data is among the most sensitive of all. Healthcare IT News has a very helpful summary article about the report, and a blog [...]
UPDATE: Breached Data of 3.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Found…In Police Evidence Room
Here’s an update to a recent Rip of the Week concerning 3.3 million breached records of federal student loan recipients. It turns out that the data, which existed on “CDs and floppy discs,” was recovered shortly after the theft and was only recently discovered in a police evidence room, and connected to the case.
WCCO reports, [...]
Rip of the Week: 3.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Breached
If you are a college student, or were a college student, and you had a student loan, it’s time to worry. Officials of St. Paul-based Educational Credit Management Corp. revealed that an unencrypted portable device was stolen during the weekend of March 20-21. The Wall Street Journal reports, and thanks to kirniki on DLDB for [...]
Tip of the Week: Watch Especially for Malicious Attacks
Continuing yet again to highlight great information found in the “2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach” by the Ponemon Institute, and sponsored by PGP, another good takeaway concerns malicious attacks versus insider negligence.
Most folks aren’t surprised to hear that malicious and criminal attacks are more expensive (more damaging) than insider negligence [...]
Rip of the Week: Thrivent Financial Suffers Mysterious Data Breach
A somewhat curious, and rather terse, laptop theft is this week’s Rip. Thanks to kirniki over at DataLossDB for the tip, National Underwriter reports that Thrivent Financial experienced a break-in at an office in Pennsylvania. A laptop was stolen, which contained personal information, including names, addresses, Social Security Numbers and health information.
But what is curious [...]
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