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Legal trend: FTC Enforcement Upheld. Retailers Take Note.

This week, the 3rd Court of Appeals upheld an enforcement action against Wyndham for a series of data breaches that exposed the credit card data of 600,000 customers.

The ruling solidies the FTC’s enforcement actions. This year alone there have been more than 90 reported data security incidents.

CRM The Center for Democracy & Technology The Recorder National Law Review

Regulatory trend: Data Security Rules for Contractors. Procurement Beware. Tech Savvy Required.

Add the Department of Defense to the long list of state, local and federal agencies increasing data security requirements for contractors. Procurement beware, its time to get tech savvy.

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Data Security Requirements Invade Federal Contracts.

Office of Management and Budget is setting forth data breach standards for federal contractors. The requirements include:

Required improved data security controls
Timely contractor reporting of all cyber incidents
Contractors will be required to undergo Security assessments
Contractors may face continuous monitoring by the government agency
Increased business due diligence before entering into a contract

Details about the OMB workgroup and proposals for contract reform are…

Hacking Medical Devices. Federal Regulators Issue Warning.

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:

In 2011 it was shown that insulin pumps can be hacked.
In May , a…

Data Security. Your Watch or Tablet or Phone. Your Health Care Records- heart rate. pedometer…Draft Guidelines Seek Comments.

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

FTC: the Data Security Protector Failed.

Lifelock, the company advertising its ability to protect your financial data, violated its 2010 $12 million settlement with 35 state attorneys general according to the FTC.

“LifeLock vigorously opposed the FTC’s allegations.” The case is heading to the courts.

The Hill Forbes (Lifelock value tumbles)

Federal Data Breach Sparks Call for Trade Sanctions

This week, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) introduced the “Protect US Act,” which would:

Give the president and Congress the power to add foreign powers accused of harboring or conducting hacking to a “State Sponsors of Cyberattacks” list.
The president would be granted power to impose a wide range of trade sanctions on those countries.

China/Chinese hackers were allegedly behind the massive federal government data breach.

The Hill