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• HIPAA Notifications Are Now Within 30 Days Since Breach If You're In Colorado

  According to bizjournals.com , any HIPAA-covered entities that do business in Colorado will now have 30 days to notify Coloradans (or Coloradoans, if you prefer) of a data breach involving personal information, and not the customary 60 calendar days under... Posted Nov 30 2018, 06:39 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, HIPAA, data security, law, computer data security, encryption law, PIPEDA, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, medical data encryption, patient data encryption, government encryption, hospital encryption, healthcare

• Leading Self-Encrypting Drives Compromised, Patched

  Earlier this week, security researchers revealed that certain SEDs (self-encrypting drives) sold by some of the leading brands in the consumer data storage industry had flaws in its full disk encryption. Bad Implementation One of the easiest ways to protect... Posted Nov 09 2018, 07:29 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, data security, hard drive encryption, information security, encryption software, disk encryption, hard disk encryption, hdd encryption software, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, best encryption

• Anthem, Yahoo To Shell Out Additional Money Over Data Breaches

  This week saw additional headaches for two US companies involved in major data breaches (we're talking top ten in US history to date). Yahoo, now a part of Verizon, has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $50 million. In addition, Anthem, Inc. – the Indiana... Posted Oct 26 2018, 03:00 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: data encryption, HIPAA, data security, law, computer data security, identity theft, cost of computer security breach, cost of endpoint security breaches, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, patient data encryption, hospital encryption

• Google and Google+ : Data Breach or Not?

  This week's revelation that Google covered up a data breach connected to Google+, the much-unused Facebook-competitor, has spilled a lot of digital ink. Unsurprisingly, most of it is unsympathetic to Google. One exception was an article at theverge... Posted Oct 12 2018, 04:49 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: data security, law, computer data security, information security, prevent data leakage, cost of endpoint security breaches, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, personal information encryption, cloud security

• Equifax Already Had a Data Breach Before It Was Hacked In 2017

  According to wsj.com (paywalled), Equifax had already suffered a data breach before the data breach that made the company famous around the world. In 2015, two years before the hack that started with a bang and ended with less than a whimper, "Chinese... Posted Sep 14 2018, 08:36 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, HIPAA, data security, law, computer data security, prevent data leakage, endpoint security breach, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, personal information encryption, patient data encryption, government encryption, financial information encryption

• Anthem Data Breach Settled for $115M, Despite Having "Reasonable" Security

  Last week, a federal judge approved a settlement – the largest to date when it comes to data breaches – that is historic and yet falls flat: Anthem, the Indianapolis-based insurer, has agreed to pay a total of $115 million to settle all charges related... Posted Aug 31 2018, 03:29 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: HIPAA, data security, law, computer data security, information security, endpoint security, prevent data leakage, cost of computer security breach, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, media encryption and protection, personal information encryption, server encryption, cloud security, healthcare