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LifeLock will pay $12 million to settle charges by the FTC
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A identity theft firrn, Lifelock, based out of Arizona has that heavily advertised itself all over TV commercials is now having to pay $11 million dollars to the FTC. This money is to settle charges against them for promoting false claims to attract consumers to their identity theft protection services. They are also to pay thirty-five state ...LifeLock Will Pay $12 Million to Settle Charges by the FTC and 35 States That Identity Theft Prevention and Data Security Claims Were False - Federal Trade Commission
Comment on Article Mentions: Todd Davis Arizona Jon Leibowitz
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Citibank apologizes after exposing 600,000 Social Security numbers
Explore Article AccountingWEB.com (2 hours, 23 min ago) Consumer , Corporate , Compliance , Lastest Data Breaches
Citibank representatives call it a processing error, which doesn’t sound too serious. But for more than half a million Citibank customers who received mail from the credit card company with their Social Security number printed on the outside of the envelope…it was more than a little disturbing.
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ONC publishes certification rule, triggers comment period
Explore Article healthcareitnews.com (23 hours, 56 min ago) Consumer , Government , Healthcare , Compliance
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology published its proposed rule on certification of electronic health records on Tuesday in the Federal Register, launching the comment period. David Blumenthal, MD, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, unveiled the rule on March 2 at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society's annual conference in Atlanta.Comment on Article Mentions: David Blumenthal Atlanta
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Utah State Legislature ID Law
Explore Article The State Column (Mar 11 2010) Government , Compliance
House Bill 387, sponsored by Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns, would add links and resources to the Identity Theft Information System (IRIS) and would assist victims of identity theft, especially children. The bill focuses on securing the social security numbers and it would allow parents to take proactive steps to protect their children's identi...Comment on Article Mentions: Legislature House Vermont
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Overpaying For PCI Compliance
Explore Article StorefrontBacktalk (Mar 10 2010) Compliance
Are you paying too much to validate your PCI compliance? It’s possible, even likely, that you are, suggests PCI Columnist Walt Conway. The reason is not that your QSA is too expensive or that PCI is too demanding. Rather, the reason many merchants pay too much is that they forget PCI Requirement 0. You don’t know Requirement 0? It says: Minimize Your PCI Scope.Failing to comply with Requirement 0 may be due to inertia or ignorance or both. Regardless of the reason, the result is excessive and unnecessary spending on people, process and technology, together with a lot of frustration.Comment on Article Mentions: Secret Service Walter Conway
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Compliance Week: Massachusetts’ Tough Privacy Law Takes Effect
Explore Article Compliance Week (Mar 9 2010) Corporate , Healthcare , Higher Ed , Compliance
Corporate compliance, legal, and IT officers entered a brave new world last week, when Massachusetts’ strict new data privacy law finally went into effect. The law, bureaucratically known as 201 CMR 17.00, took hold on March 1 after a year of delays...Comment on Article Mentions: Massachusetts
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Arkansas National Guard loses personal details of up to 15,000 guardsmen
Explore Article The Source For Document Management News (Mar 2 2010) Corporate , Government , Compliance , Lastest Data Breaches
The Arkansas National Guard has reportedly lost the personal details of up 15,000 former and serving guardsmen on a data archive drive. -
Should Feds Remove Small Practices from Red Flags Compliance?
View all 2 articles » Explore Article healthleadersmedia.com (Mar 9 2010) Healthcare , Compliance
An author on Red Flags Rule compliance tells HealthLeaders Media that eliminating small practices from complying with the FTC's identity theft prevention program regulation would lead to more identity violations.Docs Urge FTC to Exempt Health Care from Red Flags Rule - HomeCare magazine
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Data Breaches Revealed At Local Hospitals
Explore Article thebostonchannel.com (Mar 3 2010) Healthcare , Compliance , Lastest Data Breaches
At Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, the credit card information of 1,076 people may have been compromised... a data breach affecting 528 people at Brown University... the laptop of a former Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center employee was stolen... and According to HHS, the electronic medical records of more than 1,800 patients at an unidentified private medical practice in Stoughton were also stolen in December.Comment on Article Mentions: HHS Boston
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Mass. institutes new identity theft regulations
View all 7 articles » Explore Article Home - BostonHerald.com (Mar 2 2010) Corporate , Compliance , ID Theft Prevention
Comment "Actually, the law impacts any business storing the PII (personally identifiable information) of any Massachusetts resident. This legislation casts a ..." - Derek Beckwith
Any Massachusetts business storing or transmitting someone’s personal information must have a written security plan. That’s the major requirement in new identity theft-deterrent regulations that took effect on Monday.What every small business has to know about new state laws governing private information - WBJournal.com
Mass. law requires strict IT security - Fosters.com
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Public employees union criticizes data loss deal
View all 2 articles » Explore Article cnbc.com (Mar 5 2010) Government , Compliance , Data Breach
A union representing 8,000 Alaska government workers is calling on the state to renegotiate terms of an identity theft settlement with the firm responsible for losing personal data of 77,000 current and former public employees.Lawmakers question if firm broke law when information lost - KTUU.com
Comment on Article Mentions: Dan Sullivan Chicago Associated Press
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How to Stop P2P Data
View all 4 articles » Explore Article pcworld.com (Feb 24 2010) Compliance
Why wait for the FTC materials, though? Here are three tips that will help ensure your company doesn't receive a nasty letter from the FTC letting you know that your data has been breached on a P2P network.
FTC P2P Data Leak Alarm Could Give Law-Makers Big Stick - CIO.com
FTC P2P data leak alarm could give law-makers big stick - sfgate.com
Comment on Article Mentions: Jon Leibowitz Tony Bradley FTC
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An Underappreciated Threat: The Bored Employee
Explore Article StorefrontBacktalk (Mar 4 2010) Corporate , Compliance , Data Breach
Retail IT is generally on the lookout for cyberthief intruders trying to break into sensitive systems. The disgruntled former employee is another well-known trouble spot, as are the greedy and potentially dishonest current employees who simply exceed access authorization. But one of the most dangerous and often overlooked threats is the bored and honest employee, frequently younger and left in a very monotonous environment with little to no supervision.Think video store, convenience chain, 24-hour restaurant and gas station. Hacking away out of boredom is a very different profile from someone looking to harm the chain or even steal something to ...Comment on Article Mentions: Evan Schuman Secret Service Google
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US Tackles P2P Data Breach Risk With New Legislation
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 25 2010) Corporate , Compliance , ID Theft Prevention
Software developers would be required to clearly inform users when their files are made available to other P2P (peer-to-peer) users under legislation introduced on 24 Feb. by U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Thune (R-SD).Comment on Article Mentions: Amy Klobuchar Federal Trade Commission FTC
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Why seals don't always perform
Explore Article ComputerWeekly.com (Mar 3 2010) Corporate , Compliance
The US Federal Trade Commission has just found so-called privacy and security certification service ControlScan guilty of failing to monitor the practices of its certified sites. In their settlement agreement, they state that "founder and former Chief Executive Officer has entered into a separate settlement that requires him to give up $102,000...Comment on Article Mentions: Federal Trade Commission FTC ICO
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