Microsoft’s Scroogled website redirects to new page, but campaign isn’t dead
Microsoft Scroogled website now redirects visitors to a more neutral website, but the company isn’t entirely ready to let go of its Google-bashing campaign yet.
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Microsoft appeal: imagine if Stadtpolizei wanted papers from Deutsche Bank in NYC
Microsoft has compared the warrant it’s challenging for email stored in its Irish data centre to the German state police demanding papers of a journalist stored in a Deutsche Bank branch in Manhattan.
The week in security: 2015 looks bleak as Sony Pictures robbed by malware
A hack of Sony Pictures' systems led to the leaking of pre-release versions of numerous movies as well as a massive archive of sales contracts and other data. The hack led to a high-scrutiny investigation of technical evidence – including suggestions North Korea was behind the attack due to the controversial content of one of the films.
David Braue | 08 Dec | Read more
Privacy, Patients and Healthcare - where the rubber hits the road
If you want to really sit at the bleeding edge of personal privacy, spend some time thinking about storing and sharing personal health records for entire population. That's what Scotland's National Health Service embarked on and succeeded in delivering.
Anthony Caruana | 18 Nov | Read more
Privacy Commissioner releases new Privacy Regulatory Action Policy
At the opening keynote of the IAPPANZ Summit, Australia's Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim announced the release of his office's new Privacy Regulatory Action Policy.
Anthony Caruana | 17 Nov | Read more
iappANZ Summit: Privacy compliance is a business driver, not a burden
Eight months after the Australian government introduced a major overhaul of privacy legislation, organisations of all sizes are well and truly on notice that they need to take privacy seriously – but the dangers of non-compliance are much more than just fines, according to one privacy expert.
David Braue | 14 Nov | Read more
Consumers more concerned about credit-card security than their health
Organisations wondering whether data-security efforts are worth the effort will no doubt find motivation in new research that found consumers are more concerned about the security of their credit-card information than they are about their health or their retirement savings.
David Braue | 28 Oct | Read more
Healthdirect Australia Applies User-Centric Approaches to Identity and Access
Bruce Hafaele is the Chief Architect at Healthdirect Australia where he is responsible for technology strategy, architecture, software delivery and operations.
Anthony Caruana | 04 Sep | Read more
Opinion: Privacy may make or break e-health
Over the past five years, the government and industry have developed legislation and standards that enable healthcare institutions to effectively share electronic health data.
Brett Avery | 22 Jan | Read more
Security concerns over Australia’s e-health records
As Australia grinds ever-closer to putting our health records online from (allegedly) 1 July, disturbing news is emerging. US hospitals are seeing more data breaches, and Australian medical experts warn that patient safety could be put at risk.
Stilgherrian | 23 Apr | Read more
Medical data breaches soar, according to study
Security <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/690758/healthcare-security-needs-a-booster-shot">breaches among healthcare organizations</a> are soaring. That's the conclusion of the Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by ID Experts.
George V. Hulme | 02 Dec | Read more
Healthcare breaches: Do they even matter?
While the healthcare industry moves to invest billions into electronic health records, <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/690758/healthcare-security-needs-a-booster-shot">a steady trail of breaches and broken promises of security</a> is starting to take its toll on patient trust.
George V. Hulme | 22 Nov | Read more
Healthcare security needs a booster shot
A new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that a majority of health enterprises do not have the security in place, nor the policies, to properly protect patient data and privacy.
George V. Hulme | 01 Oct | Read more
Jay Cline: Are medical-data breaches overreported?
The Eli Lilly employee whose programming glitch <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/62050/ACLU_Knocks_Eli_Lilly_for_Divulging_E_Mail_Addresses">exposed the e-mail addresses of almost 700 Prozac users</a> to each other didn't know he was making history. Since that day in June 2001, hundreds more US healthcare organizations have reported medical-data breaches. As a result of those reports, federal and state health agencies have dealt out millions of dollars in fines, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a round of 150 audits. Meanwhile, a cottage industry of breach-notification service providers has arisen, and healthcare organizations can't find enough privacy talent to batten down the hatches.
Manchester hospital loses patients’ personal data
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) after losing an unencrypted USB key containing patients' personal data.
Anh Nguyen | 08 Sep | Read more
Online health records at risk from malware
AusCERT general manager Graham Ingram has questioned the wisdom of Australia's National E-Health Strategy plans to make medical records available online, pointing to the difficulty of securing end-users' computers.
Stilgherrian | 25 Aug | Read more
Health Insurer Encrypts All Stored Data
Responding to the <a href="http://www.bcbst.com/about/news/releases/default.asp?release=292">theft of 57 hard drives in 2009</a> , BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has completed a $6 million project to encrypt all of its at-rest data.
Lucas Mearian | 22 Aug | Read more
Medvet Labs investigating patient data leak
Underdale, South Australia-based paternity and drug-testing laboratory, Medvet Laboratories, has launched an investigation into an online software error which caused the details of 800 patient's delivery addresses and product details entered into its Web store to be visible online.
Hamish Barwick | 19 Jul | Read more
Aussie businesses would snub free security audits
Despite the current focus on security stemming from the massive data breaches that resulted from hackers exploiting low- and high-level system vulnerabilities, few businesses in the UK and Australia are interested in auditing systems -- even when they're free.
DHS tests show security's people problem
It was widely reported last week that as part of a study, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) randomly dropped USB and optical drives in government and private contractor parking lots -- and more than half of those who picked one up readily plugged it into their work computer.
Lucas Mearian | 07 Jul | Read more