SecurityArchitecture.comWhat’s the harm in inaccurate personal information?
What’s unfortunate about this case is that it in no way addresses very real questions about responsibility for the establishment and maintenance of data integrity.
Mistakes in UK NHS organ donor consent data show importance of validating data from outside sources
As reported in the Daily Telegraph, the British National Health Service (NHS) is blaming an IT error for the presence of inaccurate consent information for about 800,000 people about their wishes for organ donation after death….
Recommended reading: clear analytical insights in a cluttered sea
With all the attention focused on privacy and security these days, any significant development or incident gets tremendous online coverage. This is at one a good thing and a terrible problem. We’ve noted before the difficulties…
Side-effect of the “instant information” world: frequency trumps accuracy
In a coincidental reinforcement of a point we raised recently in a different context about the difficulty of establishing the credibility of information found on the Internet, a reliance on unsubstantiated claims and poorly verified (or…
Reminder: not everything you read on the web is accurate
In a post a few days ago meant to highlight the recent attacks on Google and many other companies as a textbook example of the advanced persistent threat, we cited zero-day exploits in Microsoft and Adobe…
House passes Data Accountability and Trust Act
Legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week (H.R. 2221, the Data Accountability and Trust Act) includes provisions both for national standards on data breach notifications and adding new responsibilities and consumer empowerment protections to…
Old security issues keep coming up
In an otherwise unremarkable Washington Post article about the Department of Defense’s plan to create a “cyber-command” run out of the Pentagon, a couple of points raised in the article demonstrate the persistence of some information…
Dark Reading
- How to Protect Your Environment From the NTLM Vulnerability
- LockBit Ransomware Developer Arrested in Israel
- US Ban on TP-Link Routers More About Politics Than Exploitation Risk
- How Nation-State Cybercriminals Are Targeting the Enterprise
- Managing Threats When Most of the Security Team Is Out of the Office
- OT/ICS Engineering Workstations Face Barrage of Fresh Malware
- Fortinet Addresses Unpatched Critical RCE Vector
- Orgs Scramble to Fix Actively Exploited Bug in Apache Struts 2
- Bridging the 'Keyboard-to-Chair' Gap With Identity Verification
