The announcement of LulzSec's disbandment comes within a week of the arrest of Ryan Leary,on charges of hacking a British law enforcement system. LulzSec in a posting said Leary had ties to the group.
If you take a close look at the healthcare information breach "wall of shame," you'll notice that maybe, just maybe, we're making some progress this year.
Federal officials should offer detailed guidance on how to conduct a "risk of harm" assessment to comply with the HITECH Act Breach Notification Rule, says Harry Rhodes, director of practice leadership at the American Health Information Management Association.
"It's not enough to know the architecture of the breach system," says Michael Aisenberg of MITRE Corp. "Leaders have to understand the different jurisdiction of where they do business, where their customers are and which breach law applies."
A total of 11 million Americans have been affected by major health information breaches since September 2009. So far in 2011, 2.7 million have been affected by 32 incidents.
In the wake of the recent debit card breaches in Ohio, impacted banks and credit unions have begun outreach to customers. Meanwhile, investigators still seek the source of the incident.
Authorities charged Ryan Cleary with distributed denial of service attacks on a British law enforcement agency that LulzSec claimed it hacked on Monday. Police also charged the suspect with attacks claimed by the group Anonymous against two music industry sites last fall.
Sen. Robert Menendez says regulators should have the power to compel banks to toughen IT security and offer timely customer notification of a breach. But if they don't, the Banking Committee member says in an interview, they should come to Congress to get that authority.
The arrest followed an investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group.
The video gaming company Sega says it brought down its online Sega Pass gaming because of unauthorized entry of its database, in which hackers obtained some members' e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords.
The California Supreme Court has ruled that a key provision of a tough state medical privacy law is not preempted by federal regulations. The evolving case, which eventually could wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court or grow into a class action case at the state level, is worth watching.
Not all shootings, fires and accidents are of equal import, regardless of the dramatic visuals they may produce. The same can be said about information security breaches.
Citi says only North American cardholders were affected by a recent breach of its online banking platform, though the tally of affected accounts has now jumped from about 200,000 to more than 360,000.
ADP is investigating a data breach that hit one of its corporate clients.
ADP did not name the client but said it is actively working with law enforcement to determine the cause of the incident.
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