IBM announced the acquisition of Resilient Systems which will be “industry’s first integrated end-to-end platform combining analytics, forensics, vulnerability management and incident response” according to PCWorld.  The report entitled “IBM to buy Resilient Systems, bringing security guru Bruce Schneier on board” on February 29, 2016 included these comments:…

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Darkreading identified trivia about the US that  cybercrime “costs the average US firm $15 million per year” in its “Cybercrime And Hacking Atlas” Guide about  “cybercrime threat and target trends in 10 notable countries.”  Among other details the Guide included these Notable Hackers:

Russia: Evgeniy Bogachev, also known…

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Kaspersky Lab reported that employee education is not just a nice add-on but it’s “the core element of prevention.”  The November 15, 2015 “Threats from Within” report included this statement which is hardly a surprise:

Top threats came from software vulnerabilities and accidental actions by staff, including mistakenly…

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Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center reportedly paid “the equivalent of $17,000 in bitcoins to restore control of its computer systems” according to Judy Greenwald’s report in BusinessInsurance.com on February 18, 2016.  Although there was no alleged HIPAA violation reported the Medical Center, a private 434-bed facility, issued a statement on February…

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Now on to the President for signature is a law that “would prohibit states from taxing Internet access and from levying any new taxes that target Internet services with no offline equivalent.” Networkworld reported that the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act was included in a trade enforcement bill passed…

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Reuters reported that the “French data protection authority on Monday gave Facebook three months to stop tracking non-users’ web activity without their consent and ordered the social network to stop some transfers of personal data to the United States.” The February 8, 2016 report entitled “French data privacy regulator…

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FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez praised the new identitytheft.gov website because millions “of Americans have been victims of identity theft, and until now, there has not been a single site where they can quickly file an official complaint and then get real, personalized help.” The January 28, 2016 FTC announcement included…

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The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidelines since all IoT “medical devices that use software and are connected to hospital and health care organizations’ networks have vulnerabilities—some we can proactively protect against, while others require vigilant monitoring and timely remediation.”  On January 15, 2016 the FDA announced:…

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