Insiders Big Threat to Intellectual Property

For many organizations, the biggest threat to their networks and data doesn’t come from nation-state attackers, hacktivists, or cyber-criminals. Insiders, such as disgruntled ex-employees and frustrated employees, pose significant dangers to the organization’s...

$1.5 million for 57 lost computer hard drives

Blue Cross agreed to pay $1.5 million after 57 computer hard drives were stolen from an outside facility. Los Angeles Times Article http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kaiser-patient-privacy-20130105,0,7963288.story Federal and state officials are investigating...

Make sure contractors adhere to ironclad security practices

Kaiser has shown extraordinary recklessness in this situation Federal and state officials are investigating whether healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente violated patient privacy in its work with an Indio couple who stored nearly 300,000 confidential hospital records for...

Companies are losing control of their data

Users are sharing information on social networks and using public cloud services to move data from corporate to personal devices in ways that by-pass company security policies and systems, and expose company data. see the entire article Infosecurity...

Worst Security Snafus of 2012

The first half of 2012 was pretty bad — from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches — and the second half wasn’t much better, with events including Symantec’s antivirus update mess and periodic attacks...