A Quarter in Review

Posted by admin on November 11, 2011

PandaLabs has released their Q3 Report for 2011, covering July – September 2011. The quarter was an active one, with over 5 million new malware strains created. Not to be outdone by previous quarters, records were set as always. In Q3 2011, Trojan creation hit a record high, with 3 out of every 4 new [...]

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273% rise in mobile malware in first half of 2011

Posted by admin on September 14, 2011

Malware on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is up 273% in the first half of 2011, compared with the same period in 2010, a new study has shown. The results come from a study conducted by G Data Security Labs ndicates that mobile devices and tablets are being targeted by cyber criminals more [...]

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Health Net Suffers Large Breach

Posted by admin on March 18, 2011

Health Net, who recently settled the first HIPAA-related lawsuit for the 2009 loss of a computer disk drive that put 1.5 million patients at risk, has suffered another data breach of a sizeable nature. The unexplained loss of 9 server drives at its data center has put 2 million Health Net members, employees and health [...]

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Laptops Biggest Cause of Healthcare Data Breaches

Posted by admin on February 26, 2011

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act became effective in February of 2009. According to new data, looking at dates between September 2009 – 2010, 4.9 million patients had their personal health information compromised as a result of 166 data breaches. Though the HITECH act was put in place to encourage [...]

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Non-Compliance Is Costly

Posted by admin on February 4, 2011

The Ponemon Institute has put together a report for Tripwire on the True Cost of Compliance. The research looks at both the costs of keeping up with compliance regulations as well as the costs associated with non-compliance. The report, which tallied responses from 160 leaders in 46 multinational companies, shows that non-compliance costs are 2.65 [...]

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