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The Climb
We’re well into 2011 and 2010 retrospectives are steadily coming out. InfoSecurity published an interesting one, stating that there were 662 reported data breaches in the US this past year: A couple of noteworthy lowlights from the report include breaches affecting two of the ‘Holy Grails’ of personal information: Social Security numbers and credit/debit card [...]
Mobile “Rubik’s Cube”
It’s interesting, not long ago there were a lot of discussions around general mobile device security. Now it seems to be making a shift to verticals as more and more records become electronic and organizations in those vertical industries are adopting mobile devices- particularly the healthcare sector: According to American Medical News in the February [...]
Life’s a Breach
It’s summer in Boston and it’s not just the weather that’s hot. Earlier this week there was a major loss of private data affiliated with South Shore Hospital. According to iHealth Beat: Monday, officials at South Shore Hospital in Massachusetts announced that the personal information of about 800,000 individuals could be missing after an off-site [...]
201 CMR 17.00: Six Weeks Later…
It’s been about six weeks since MA 201 CMR 17.00 data privacy regulation went into effect. Viewed as the strictest standards in the nation to-date, many experts are carefully watching, waiting to see who will be nabbed as the first Attorney General’s “cautionary tale.” In the meantime, many people have been wondering what will realistically [...]
