Cyber Security Predictions 2013
BusinessTechGrant Brown, security practices expert at Symantec says that, as organisations and consumers increasingly rely on online platforms to drive interactions with one another, the risk of malicious attacks remains ever-present. The group has highlighted …

Grady Hospital Officials Reveal Nine-Month Data Breach With It EMS Patient …
Creative Loafing Atlanta
By: Max Blau

The data breach occurred after an employee of Advanced Data Processing, Inc., a company which handles the hospital’s ambulance billing system, illegally stole thousands of patients’ data nationwide from numerous hospitals, including Grady. According to …

Western Connecticut State University Warns 235000 of Potential Data Breach
Business Insurance
By: Judy Greenwald

Experts have said a massive South Carolina Department of revenue data breach that was revealed in October and exposed information on individual and corporate taxpayers will be a wake-up call to public entities across the country that store vast amounts …

How to Secure Patient Data During Consolidation
Becker’s Hospital Review
By: Kathleen Roney

If hospitals ignore risks to security during consolidation, they could have a data breach that loses thousands of records. The costs of such a breach would make the expense of a migration plan look like pennies,” says Mr. Dabbs. Furthermore, a …

White House Draft Cyber Order Adds Changes to Mollify Tech Industry
The Hill
By: Jennifer Martinez

… technology neutral and enables critical infrastructure sectors to benefit from a competitive market for products and services that meet the standards, methodologies, procedures and processes developed to address cyber risks,” an excerpt from the …

JPL Employees Demand Probe of NASA’s Data Security Measures
Los Angeles Times
By: Tiffany Kelly

Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), a member of the House Appropriations science subcommittee, called on NASA “to report on and accelerate its efforts to maintain data security.” Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) said in a statement she would push the agency to …

ADP Discloses Ambulance Data Billing System Breach
Dark Reading

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Advanced Data Processing, Inc., (the “Company”), a provider of technology-based services to the emergency medical services industry, learned on October 1, 2012 that individual account information …

A New Brand of Cyber Security: Hacking The Hackers
Los Angeles Times
By: Ken Dilanian

December 4, 2012, 3:30 a.m.. WASHINGTON – As head of the FBI’s cyber crimes division, Shawn Henry often had to deal with exasperated company executives after his agents informed them that their networks had been hacked and their secrets pilfered.