Lawsuit for improper access to medical records faces many challenges

In a legal action noted by several privacy-minded observers, a woman in Cabell County, West Virginia filed suit in March against health care provider Marshall Health (the collective name for a group of clinical centers affiliated…

Cyber insurance transfers risk but doesn’t replace due care

The ongoing series of high-profile data breaches reported by companies across multiple industry sectors – including major retailers (Target and Home Depot), health insurers (Anthem and Premera), online service vendors (Uber), hotels (Mandarin Oriental and Hilton HHonors),…

Installing Snort on Windows

On March 12, the Sourcefire team announced the release of Snort 2.9.7.2, the latest update to one of the most popular (and open source) network IDS tools. Detailed instructions for installing Snort on either Ubuntu Linux…

Is Clinton’s use of a private email server a big deal or not?

There are two broad questions that may turn out to be more relevant than whether Clinton was, intentionally or inadvertently, keeping from public scrutiny any details about her work as Secretary of State.

Feds seek centralized threat analysis with CTIIC

“Currently, no single government entity is responsible for producing coordinated cyber threat assessments, ensuring that information is shared rapidly among existing cyber centers and other elements within our government, and supporting the work of operators and policy makers with timely intelligence about the latest cyber threats and threat actors.”

Anthem breach enabled by compromising administrator credentials

As an internal investigation continues into the massive data breach reported last week by Anthem, the company has confirmed reports that administrators who discovered the breach in late January noticed unusual activity on Anthem’s database systems…

VMware exec Tony Scott named new Federal CIO

The White House announced on February 5 that Tony Scott will become the new Chief Information Officer for the federal government, filling a position within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that has been vacant…