Mar 14
Developing and advocating best practices and public policies which mitigate emerging privacy, identity and security threats to online services, government agencies, organizations and consumers, thereby enhancing online trust and confidence.
https://otalliance.org/resources/2011DataBreachGuide.pdf
Mar 11
Cape Cod Today's editors have learned that a hard drive was stolen last week from the sales office of one of the Cape's premier resorts. Confidential sources revealed that the staff arrived one morning to find a computer that would not start and called their IT technician, who discovered that the hard drive had been removed.
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2011/03/09/swiped-away-a-hard-drive-goes-to-sea?blog=53
Mar 10
The Internet is an extraordinary platform for innovation, economic growth, and social communication. Using the Internet, entrepreneurs reach global markets, political groups organize, and major companies manage their supply chains and deliver services to their customers. Simply stated, the Internet is becoming the central nervous system of our information economy and society.
http://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2010/december/iptf-priv...
Mar 9
Symantec recently released the 2010 findings based on research by the Ponemon Institute. The average cost of a data breach for a U.S. company continues to rise, having reached $7.2 million in 2010.
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/about/media/pdfs/symantec_ponemon_data_...
Mar 8
WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- How many of us have donated used computers and their parts to charity? Most people never think twice about it. But you'll be shocked to learn what 9NEWS NOW found.
http://wusa9.com/news/article/139057/77/Personal-Information-Found-On-Donated...
Mar 7
(Springfield, MO) - More than 6,000 Missouri State University students have had their social security numbers compromised.
http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=415136
Mar 4
Gamestop is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly violating California's privacy laws by recording a customer's "personal identification information" during a purchase.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108161-GameStop-Sued-Over-Privacy-V...
Mar 3
An employee at the Henry Ford Health System lost a flash drive containing information on 2,777 patients, the second data breach at the Detroit hospital in less than a year.
http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/16310/detroit-hospital-suffers-second-dat...
Feb 28
BOSTON—Massachusetts General Hospital has agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it potentially violated patient privacy laws when a hospital employee commuting to work on the subway lost the records of 192 patients.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/02/25/mgh_to_pay...
Feb 24
ORANGE – A Chapman University student stumbled across the personal information of about 13,000 other students in an unsecured computer folder last week, officials said.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/university-289533-information-chapman.html