The Obama Administration issued an executive order on Friday, October, 7, 2011, to replace safeguards that exposed thousands of classified government documents in the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal last year. Specific details on the safeguards were not posted, but the Administration stated that procedures were implemented to monitor and detect specific behavior on sensitive […]
Last week, Great Britain announced that it is “dismantling” a government program aimed at making health care records available electronically. The objective of the program was to better facilitate communications between doctors, clinics, and patients. The program, which began in 2002, was budgeted at $19 billion to implement. As Dr. David J. Brailer, national coordinator for health information technology […]
After three years of investigations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington announced on Wednesday that they have indicted three men for allegedly committing crimes where technological and conventional methods were utilized. The trio is alleged to have use a technique called ‘wardriving’, using a vehicle to detect a business’ wireless network and gain […]
In Friday’s (September 16,2011) edition of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. John Bussey wrote an OpEd article about small to mid-sized businesses (“SMB”), and how they are opting to leverage the advantages of cloud providers. The author reports that the SMB market has become more sophisticated when it comes to choosing which provider to outsource its […]
On Friday, September 9, 2011, Stanford Hospital disclosed that over 20,000 patient records were publicly posted on a commercial Web site, which included the names of the patients, admission and release dates, and diagnosis codes. The information had been publicly available for almost one year. The New York Times reported that “[s]ince discovering the breach last […]
Vivek Kundra’s tenure as the Nation’s first Chief Information Officer will likely be remembered for designating much of the federal government’s IT architecture towards cloud-based services. The former CIO’s vision has recently come under scrutiny by the two most prominent agencies within the U.S. government – the Pentagon and State Department. While the main selling point for cloud-based technology is cost […]
The word “cookies” has become so much a part of our online experience that most consumers are at least tangentially aware of the technology’s capability and purpose. For the online consumer, cookies are mostly associated with how web-based companies are able track the browsing habits of Internet users. With the ability to track user preferences online, the […]
Mobile application developer, W3 Innovations, has reached a $50,000 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). W3 Innovations was charged, by the FTC, with collecting and storing information from children, such as e-mail addresses and messages posted on public message boards, without parental consent. This is the first time […]
Security experts from McAfee announced tonight that the United Nations and 72 other organizations were among those who were infiltrated by a cyber-attack – the largest data breach to date. According to Reuters, the hackers broke into the computer system of the U.N. Secretariat in Geneva in 2008, and were subsequently able to comb through terabytes […]
In the wake of a growing number of corporate hacking incidents, the demand for cyber-liability insurance coverage is growing at an astounding rate. This as companies seek alternative measures to mitigate their overall enterprise risk management strategies. The insurance industry is struggling with how best to write those policies, and no where is this more prevalent than at Zurich American Insurance […]