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Contractor Breach Hits Two Health Systems
Oct 04, 2011 01:44pm

Two delivery systems in the Minneapolis area have notified a total of 16,800 patients about a breach of their protected health information following the theft of a laptop.


An...

Data breach affects 4.9M active, retired military personnel
Sep 30, 2011 08:24am

Computerworld - Sensitive data including Social Security Numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers and personal health data belonging to about 4.9 million active and retired U.S. military...

Russian firm unveils tool to crack BlackBerry passwords
Sep 30, 2011 08:22am

IDG News Service - A Russian security company has upgraded a phone-password cracking suite with the ability to figure out the master device password for Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices....

Healthcare Breaches Getting Costlier
Sep 29, 2011 09:04am

Since this time last year, some 6.6 million unsecured records have been exposed, in a variety of incidents, ranging from deliberate hacking, through theft of laptops down to the slightly less...

Securing the iPhone 5: What Will It Deliver?
Sep 28, 2011 08:26am

Mark McGarvey, eSecurity Planet

Mark your calendar.  Amid analyst predictions of unprecedented demand for the newest version of Apple’s iPhone, Cupertino tea-leaf readers now believe...

Physical, Logical Security Worlds Continue Slow Convergence
Sep 27, 2011 03:58pm

Sep 26, 2011 

By Tim Wilson
Dark Reading


Say the word "security" in most large...
Mac trojan spreads under guise of PDF document
Sep 26, 2011 09:18am

A Mac OS X trojan, disguised as a PDF file, is duping users into loading a backdoor onto their machines, according to researchers at F-Secure.
The trojan is emulating a tactic used for...

Open Virtualization Alliance Expands
Sep 22, 2011 09:00am

The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) got its start in May as an effort to grow KVM virtualization adoption. In the short time since, OVA has grown to more than 200 members, as it aims to...

After breach, DigiNotar folds into voluntary bankruptcy....the risks and perils of a bad security breach
Sep 20, 2011 02:20pm

Embattled SSL certificate authority DigiNotar, responsible for issuing hundreds of counterfeit credentials...

NIST Releases Draft of Special Publication 800-30, Revision 1, Guide for Conducting Risk Assessments
Sep 20, 2011 09:18am

NIST released a draft of a new special publication on risk assessments.  The document is open to comments....

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