Utah Governor Gary Herbert has fired the director of the state’s Department of Technology Services (DTS) over a breach that exposed healthcare records of 780,000 Utah Medicaid recipients.
Canada’s interception bill C-30 dead in the water?
For all intents and purposes, the bill is dead; it appears that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ plans to ease police tracking of those who use the web for criminal purposes has been shelved.
UK companies are cyber self-confident
A new study by BAE Systems Detica shows that British business is pessimistic about security in general, but strangely confident about its own.
UK companies are cyber self-confident
A new study by BAE Systems Detica shows that British business is pessimistic about security in general, but strangely confident about its own.
McAfee, Intel team on ‘reference implementation’ to secure power grid
At a time when cyberthreats to critical infrastructure are growing, McAfee and Intel have teamed to create a “reference implementation” for the energy sector that integrates a number of McAfee security products for substations and network operations ce…
The danger in service operators’ censorship filters
Yesterday we reported that the German Pirate Party had been ‘accidentally’ blocked by an automatic content filtering system used by many German schools. And yesterday the Open Rights Group and the LSE Media Policy Unit published a new report: Mobile In…
South Carolina county takes nine month to notify thousands of data breach victims
Officials with York County, South Carolina, took nine months to notify close to 17,000 job applicants and vendors that their social security numbers were exposed by an intrusion into a web application server.
Mozilla’s objection to IE-only Windows on ARM: a major row in the making
Windows is not Apple’s iOS, says Mozilla’s top lawyer after the organization complained that Firefox and other browsers would be excluded from Windows RT running on ARM systems.
BeyondTrust acquires vulnerability management company eEye Digital Security
BeyondTrust, a company that provides privilege delegation and authorization systems with its PowerBroker suite of products, has acquired eEye Digital Security, developer of the Blink and Retina vulnerability management tools.
Drowning in data: Security professionals look to metrics for a lifeline
Security professionals are experiencing an information overload and want better metrics to analyze the data so they can take action, according to a survey conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of RedSeal Networks.