Who Shoulders the cost of a Breach

Doesn't it just make sense that if the breach happens at the retails location the they should be accountable for the costs. It's not the banks fault that a retailer didn't comply with standards that were put in place and why should they have to take all the costs. At some point the Banks fee will haver to increase as they spend more and more on data breaches.


http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_25332720/data-breaches-retailers-and-others-should-shoulder-some

Transporting Sensitive Data

Who stores data on Compact Disc's anyway?

No one should be able to copy data on to any type of removable media.



http://time.com/23466/nyc-transit-agency-has-data-breach/

Affordable Care Act at the cost of possible Data Breaches

While the Affordable Care Act brings healthcare to all who need it, there is a price to pay.
The Act expands healthcare to so many that the amount of data sharing has increased dramatically, it has also made it harder to regulate who has what data and what they need to do with it.

http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/annual-survey-shows-security-progress-and-new-concerns-47421-1.html

Indiana University - Inadvertently Exposed 146,000 records

Can't we just make a blanket statement that all sensative data must be encrypted at rest. There will always be data that is lost but if we just follow that simple guide it will be far less painful.



http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2014/03/146000-indiana-university-student-records-potentially-exposed

Data Encryption the Corner Stone to solve the Data Breach epidemic

While Congress and other organizations around the world hear from industry experts and debate the best policy to tackle the Data Breach epidemic we all face, Hackers don't have to wait and they also know now is the time to strike. But there is something that can be done NOW......

Possible Data Lose? There was a breach unsure if they took anything.

Vermont Health Connect had a breach in December.....Yes December 2013, and today we hear "It was somebody coming in through an unlocked front door."

They know that someone from "ROMANIA" accessed their system in December but it was a test system no real data in it. If no real data was in question why is it news? 

http://digital.vpr.net/post/state-says-personal-data-safe-after-breach-involving-vermont-health-connect

Data Breach Notification Problems - Isn't the Breach the Problem?

I know they are having problems coming up with a consensus on how to notify data breach victims. Isn't the real problem that fact that there was a breach in the first place, once the breach has happened the Banks cover all the charges and you can always get new cards. Shouldn't we be spending more time looking at a way to sot breaches from happening or at least making the data useless to the hackers.


http://www.boston.com/business/technology/2014/03/09/consensus-notifying-victims-data-breaches/1U4ZQnPWS6zRSS4GFdNVMJ/story.html

Slow and steady go the Data Breach Fines

Skagit County had a breach back in 2011 and violated several HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification rules.

And today March 10th 2014 they are fined $215,000 for the incident that happened almost 3 years ago. What sort of punishment is that?

http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2014/3/10/first-county-level-hipaa-fine-issued-la-county-reports-data-theft

Statista becomes the latest Statistic

While this breach creates so many great blog titles it doesn't seam to be very damaging for a data lose stand point. The data lose looks to be just emails and passwords to the site, Yes you will get some great spam sent to you if you are effected but no new CC needed just a better spam filter.

No one is safe No company is been excluded from these attacks.

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=16496

University data breaches are the tip of the iceberg

While Universities scramble to plug holes in their networks and not become the next Maryland or Indiana, other industries need to be looking long and hard at their own networks.
Whats next maybe your local Gym or some other sort of membership driven industry, they are typically not that technical so it stands to reason that they may have some security holes.

http://techpageone.dell.com/industries2/education/data-breaches-challenge-university-data-security/#.Ux2-EuddVJM

PII shouldn't be stored on Local PC's

When someone steals a laptop and it has Sensitive Data it is a breach even if they use the data or not. My question is why risk it and allow the data to be stored on the device in an unencrypted form. Allow your users to connect to your data over the network and don't let them store the data in any form on their devices.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/36101/168-000-at-risk-after-computers-stolen-health-data-compromised-in-la/index.html

Secure your Data and your job will be Secure.

At the end of the day when something goes wrong it's always the bosses fault and they are the ones that take the fall. Hackers now have so much power, if they decide to target your company and your an IT executive there is a good chance you will be let go following the breach.

The Target breach is a great wake up call for all IT exec's, secure your data or your job won't be too secure.

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140310/BIZ/303109992/1031

Use Cash to Pay for Cabs in Chicago. OK but what about everywhere else?

I get that after the data breach in Chicago we need to possibly use cash to pay for Cabs when in town. But the breach it's self didn't give me much comfort for the rest of the Cab industry, should I be using cash every time I get in a cab?
Does this also mean any town car or limo services?

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/36046/visiting-chicago-use-cash-instead-of-credit-or-debit-to-pay-for-cabs/index.html

There are Benefits of being a victim of a Data Breach

I'm not sure I would call them Benefits but yes being made to setup new auto payments, changing your password & free credit reporting are great.

But you should always change your password or a regular basis, this should be a routine you get into once a month. As for credit reporting, this will become a standard banking practice soon as they will offer it as a standard feature to all customers.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/03/08/3-reasons-thank-target-losing-your-credit-card-number/