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• Yahoo Penalized £250,000 By UK Information Commissioner's Office

  It was reported this week that the United Kingdom's Information Commissioner – the person whose department is in charge of upholding the nation's data privacy laws – has penalized Yahoo! UK Services Limited with the amount of £250,000. The penalty... Posted Jun 15 2018, 04:00 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: data encryption, data security, law, information security, cost of software security breaches, cost of computer security breach, cost of endpoint security breaches, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, personal information encryption, government encryption, UK, cloud security

• 47.5 GB of PHI Left Exposed on the Cloud. (That's 316,000 PDFs)

  According to gizmodo.com , security researchers at Kromtech Security Center found a wide-open Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket that contained over 300,000 PDFs, each one a medical file that would fall under the governance of the Health Insurance Portability... Posted Oct 13 2017, 02:56 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: HIPAA, data security, law, computer data security, information security, file encryption, data at rest encryption, identity theft, cost of software security breaches, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, best encryption, medical data encryption, patient data encryption, government encryption, hospital encryption, cloud security, healthcare

• HIPAA/HITECH Doesn't Require You To Be Perfect, But It Does Expect You To Follow The Rules

  A couple of recent Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) legal settlements emphasize paperwork over security, showing that a healthcare entity's approach to safeguarding data must be holistic: yes, you need to use encryption, and lock doors... Posted Apr 28 2017, 07:09 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: HIPAA, law, computer data security, encryption software, cost of software security breaches, cost of computer security breach, cost of endpoint security breaches, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, personal information encryption, best encryption, patient data encryption, government encryption, hospital encryption, healthcare

• Children's Medical Center of Dallas Pays $3.2 Million To Settle HIPAA Violations

  The Children's Medical Center of Dallas (Children's) recently settled with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over multiple failures to encrypt sensitive data in mobile devices. The settlement – $3.2 million dollars – is quite... Posted Feb 08 2017, 02:58 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: HIPAA, mobile data security, encryption software, cost of software security breaches, cost of lost laptops, encryption law, encryption software provider, laptop encryption provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, medical data encryption, patient data encryption, government encryption, hospital encryption, healthcare

• Courts Concrete FTC As Nation's Cyber Supercop

  That the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has court-approved authority to bring legal action against companies embroiled in data breaches is old news by now. Of course, when you consider that the FTC has been suing companies over data breaches since 2005... Posted Sep 29 2015, 07:34 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: law, computer data security, information security, secure digital assets, prevent data leakage, encryption software, identity theft, computer encryption software, cost of software security breaches, cost of computer security breach, cost of endpoint security breaches, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, personal information encryption, financial information encryption, cloud security

• Data Encryption: Can Moral Hazard Account For Low Levels Of Corporate Data Security?

  Over at theconversation.com , an article is tackling "why companies have little incentive to invest in cybersecurity." One of the arguments is that companies encounter moral hazard. That is, they're don't really feel the effects of the... Posted Mar 05 2015, 07:40 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: data security, data theft prevention, prevent data leakage, cost of software security breaches, cost of computer security breach, cost of endpoint security breaches, cost of lost laptops, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, personal information encryption