Welcome to the Future!
Pearson’s SEC Form 20-F report warns investors about:
In 2007, 17% of police departments were using license plate readers. That number increased rapidly. By 2012, 71% of police departments used license plate readers.
Whats the concern if these help lower crime? The data. Regulations seek to:
6 states have limited the use of license plate readers or prohibited the use…
UCLA finds itself facing a class action lawsuit over a data breach at hospitals in the UCLA hospital system.
So how does a state university system get sued?
Maine Municipal Association has added cyber-liability coverage to its insurance plan for municipalities.
Mount Desert Maine developed a data breach response policy in consultation with the Town Manager, the Police Chief, and a consultant. The data security policy:
Data breach lawsuits are dominating courts. Judges are finding that no specific monetary harm is necessary for these suits to progress.
In the latest health care data breach suit, patients have filed a lawsuit against a medical software company for a data breach.
Onstar–the savior for people who lock their keys in the car. Onstar–the way for hackers to take over your car.
Until this week, hackers were able to take control of opening cars, turning on the ignition, and locating the vehicle. The hack took $100 of equipment but was an otherwise easy path to taking over Onstar.
Researchers testing the Tesla system also identified a potential vulnerability and sent out a wireless update to Tesla systems.
Computer Weekly’s Security Editor has a more succinct explanation replete with tech jargon:
“common file synchronisation services such as GoogleDrive and Dropbox for command and control, data exfiltration and remote access, security firm Imperva has revealed.”
At the 2015 Blackhat Security conference, businesses were urged to begin utilizing “perimeter security to data monitoring and data security.” For more advice, including their recommended security protocols for cloud…
Medical devices are interconnected. It creates better health care delivery and creates access points for hackers.
Federal regulators issued a warning that a pump used to deliver medicine to patients, the Symbiq Infusion System from medical device-maker Hospira, can be hacked by if access is gained to a hospital’s computer network.
Not the first time medical devices and hacking have ended up in the same sentence:
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is soliciting comment on its guide to secure electronic health records on mobile devices.
NCCOE Draft Guide Comment is accepted until 9.25.15 here
“The Consortium for School Networking, will work toward establishing a nationwide set of standards around student privacy. The end result will be known as the Trusted Learning Environment Seal that public schools can adopt to assure the community that their student’s data is protected.”