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Live from RSA Europe: Axis Announces Support for InterSystems Caché!

Posted by on October 11, 2011 at 5:11 pm

The Axis team is exhibiting at this week’s RSA Europe Conference and to kick off our participation in the event, we’ve announced an exciting development to our DMsuite data masking product: Axis Technology Announces Support for InterSystems Caché DMsuite is the Only Data Masking Product to Support Healthcare-Focused Platform Boston, MA & RSA Conference, London, [...]

Felony: Catch Them if You Can…

Posted by on June 30, 2011 at 10:01 am

Congress is trying to make hacking government networks a felony, but how effective would that really be as a deterrent? Carole Theriault of Sophos shares our sentiments on this: It’s no easy task to track down skilled hackers as they are intent on keeping their anonymity, Carole Theriault, a senior security consultant at Sophos, wrote [...]

In the Citi

Posted by on June 10, 2011 at 10:11 am

Another day, another breach. Yesterday Citigroup was yet one more company that disclosed thieves had accessed private data: Statement From Citigroup, Inc.: During routine monitoring, we recently discovered unauthorized access to Citi’s Account Online. A limited number – roughly one percent – of Citi North America bankcard customers’ account information (such as name, account number [...]

An Unhealthy Amount of Lost Data…

Posted by on June 8, 2011 at 10:01 am

Per section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act, the government has made the names and causes of healthcare company data breaches public on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website. We downloaded the spreadsheet of 282 organizations and the top cause of lost data was personal. Some were blatant thefts, but most were accidental: [...]

“Fire at Will!”

Posted by on June 7, 2011 at 9:59 am

I’m starting to feel like the continual attacks on Sony are growing tiresome. At the E3 2011 Conference Sony execs apologized for the network outage and promised new gaming innovations as a way to thank members for their loyalty. Sure. How about the part where users are thanked with tighter security measures that are implemented [...]