Credit Card's can be replaced but SSN's can not be.

When a breach happens there is certain information that once lost it is always lost and can never be replaced. SSN's are one of those things that once it is out on the web it will always be out there, one other is Medical records. Once they are out there everyone will know all about you and what issues you may have, not that hard to create a second YOU if they know so much about you.

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Even Security Providers aren't Safe

It was only a matter of time before the provider of security products was blamed or at least held up to be attacked. Trustwave may not be the first security company to be sued, nor will it be the last one. As I discussed with someone in the security industry today, the common issue with all these breaches is human error. A firewall doesn't fail, encryption doesn't just un-encrypt it's self......... USER intervention is needed.

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New Mexico adding another layer to the already complicated DATA BREACH LAWS

Don't get me wrong the newly introduced Data Breach Notification Bill is great for consumers and card issuers. Customers can sue for damages from $100-$300, while the numbers look rather small when you take into account the number of people that are effected in an average breach. Lets just say they lose 10,000 records (which is rather small) that could lead to $1,000,000 in customer suits, plus the card issuers can now sue for recovery of of administrative costs.

The bigger issue is companies have compliance laws, State law and Federal laws they need to decipher to make sure the don't get any unwanted fines. They need to make this easier for the companies not harder.

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Look Around ........ good chance someone you see has been affected by a Data Breach

Based on these numbers when you stand in line at Starbucks this morning or stuck in commuter traffic, it is safe to say at least one person you can see has been effected by a data breach.
In fact they say 44% of Banking Customers have been effected, so you should still worry about the retailers but your financial instatution is not out the question for a data breach.

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UK Companies and the rest of the world take notice from the Target Breach

Although the UK companies may have lessons to learn for the Target breach, the rest of the world should take notice and learn some lessons as well.

At the end of the day, to be completely secure a company must know where all the data is being touched, and make sure that all interactions need to be encrypted and no 3rd party should ever have access to data in clear text.

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Working with Real Data comes at a Cost

When the Stanford contractor sent patient Data to a third part as an electronic spreadsheet, they violated the basic principals of the HIPAA regulations.

"Protecting Customers After Data Breaches Becoming Standard Practice"

Shouldn't we be trying to protect them before a breach happens? I think we need to focus on trying to stop them from getting any data of any value, once we stop them from getting and valuable data we have this issue.


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Stand in Line at the DMV or Renew online and let hackers have you CC?

You could stand in those crazy lines that every DMV has across the country or you can renew your Drivers License online? I don't remember ever seeing the warning on the online site saying "WARNING - Your Data may get compramised - USE AT OWN RISK". Yes I know this could be said for almost any online site out there, but when you are required to do this by the government you expect that they have taken all procausions.


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