Thirty-four States Have Passed Security Breach Notification Laws
Privacy & American Business' In-Depth Special Report analyzes who's affected and how the laws differ. July 20, 2006//Hackensack, NJ: The increasing number of data breaches and constituent concern over identity theft are pushing state legislators to ...
DOE: No privacy on agency computers
The Energy Department finalized a rule that essentially requires all employees and contractors to give up any expectations of privacy when using agency computers. DOE"s rule, which will become effective Aug. 18, also specifies that members of the public ...
Davis introduces data breach notification act
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) introduced today legislation that would require federal agencies to notify the public when they have data breaches involving sensitive information. The bill would amend the Federal Information Security Management Act, and is a respo...
AT&T Settles Customer Information Investigation
AT&T will pay a $550,000 settlement to end an investigation into its handling of customers" telephone information. The company recently agreed to pay the money on behalf of SBC, which acquired AT&T and adopted its name. The companies cooperated w...
DHS responds to criticism of database on vulnerable infrastructure
The department has come under heavy criticism recently -- and become the butt of jokes by late-night comedians -- due to its decision in May to cut urban antiterror funding to major metropolitan areas and an inspector general"s report last week that found ...
Security Pros Wrestle With Data Overload
First, the good news: IT administrators have a ton of data about information security. The bad news, of course, is that IT administrators have a ton of data about information security. The proliferation of events and alerts from a wide variety of security ...
SQL injection attacks against banks on the rise
SecureWorks announced that it has seen a dramatic increase in the number of hacker attacks attempted against its banking, credit union and utility clients in the past three months using SQL Injection. "From January through March, we blocked anywhere from 1...