The announcement of LulzSec's disbandment comes within a week of the arrest of Ryan Leary,on charges of hacking a British law enforcement system. LulzSec in a posting said Leary had ties to the group.
In a case weighing privacy vs. free speech, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a Vermont law that requires physicians to give their consent before information about their prescription-writing habits can be sold to help market prescription drugs.
Banks need to take a proactive approach toward improving their business continuity planning, and that includes updating services and evaluating business-impact assessments, says Donald Saxinger of the FDIC.
If you take a close look at the healthcare information breach "wall of shame," you'll notice that maybe, just maybe, we're making some progress this year.
"We appear to be asking DHS to take on new cybersecurity roles and missions while it is establishing its basic core competencies," Melissa Hathaway says. "Is this reasonable? Do we want DHS to become a first party regulator?"
Federal officials should offer detailed guidance on how to conduct a "risk of harm" assessment to comply with the HITECH Act Breach Notification Rule, says Harry Rhodes, director of practice leadership at the American Health Information Management Association.
"It's not enough to know the architecture of the breach system," says Michael Aisenberg of MITRE Corp. "Leaders have to understand the different jurisdiction of where they do business, where their customers are and which breach law applies."
When it comes to cyber threats facing Indian financial institutions, the human element is by far the biggest, says Vicky Shah, founder of the security firm The Eagle Eye, and banks need to have measures in place to address the problem.
Security experts at this week's Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit agree: Security, not compliance, has to be the new focus. Cyberintrusions cannot be stopped, and the RSA breach should be a lesson to the industry.
Farzad Mostashari, who heads the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, has described why electronic health records play an important role in disaster preparedness.
The FDIC's Donald Saxinger says vendor management programs are getting more scrutiny from regulators, especially in areas of emerging technology, such as cloud computing and mobile banking.
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