SecurityArchitecture.comSupreme Court takes on expectations of privacy for personal text messages
As noted in a post here about a week and a half ago, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 19 in City of Ontario v. Quon, which is an appeal by the city of…
Sharing data in EHR systems without consumer preferences may lead to information withholding
An unintended, if not wholly unexpected, consequence of the health care industry’s heavily incentivized move towards use of electronic health records and sharing data contained in those records appears to be a greater likelihood that individuals…
Employee expectations of privacy in the workplace only improving in very specific contexts
With the current interest focused on revisiting the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), including plans announced by members of both the House and Senate to initiate formal reviews of the 1986 law and the extent to…
As cloud computing gains momentum, so does government attention to privacy and security
While still marked by more hype than tangible success, cloud computing remains an area widely viewed as inevitable in both commercial and public sector markets. Whether you accept the predictions of cloud service vendors or favor…
Addressing privacy is a top priority for health IT, but should it trump improving care?
The HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) seems to be putting privacy protections (along with security) high on its list of priorities as it works to make widespread adoption of health information technology a reality….
Whether you value privacy or not, the debate over online privacy is heating up
In honor of the 10-year anniversary this week of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), it seems like a good time to take stock of the state of privacy — in general but especially online…
Efforts to combat illegal music downloads again raise privacy issue over IP addresses
For quite some time we’ve been following the development of the legal debate in both the European Community and the United States over whether IP addresses can be considered personally identifiable information, and therefore handled under…
CSO Online Headlines
- FBI warns Black Basta ransomware impacted over 500 organizations worldwide
- Australian federal budget outlines investment in cybersecurity
- New threat trends emerge out of East Asia
- Equipped with AI tools, hackers make apps riskier than ever
- Low-tech tactics still top the IT security risk chart
- Download the SASE and SSE enterprise buyer’s guide
- IntelBroker steals classified data from the Europol website
- Ridding your network of NTLM
- CISA inks 68 tech vendors to secure-by-design pledge — but will it matter?
Dark Reading
- Microsoft Windows DWM Zero-Day Poised for Mass Exploit
- Unprotected Session Tokens Can Undermine FIDO2 Security
- As the FBI Closes In, Scattered Spider Attacks Finance, Insurance Orgs
- A Cost-Effective Encryption Strategy Starts With Key Management
- Dangerous Google Chrome Zero-Day Allows Sandbox Escape
- DNS Tunneling Abuse Expands to Tracking & Scanning Victims
- There Is No Cyber Labor Shortage
- Heartbleed: When Is It Good to Name a Vulnerability?
- 500 Victims In, Black Basta Reinvents With Novel Vishing Strategy
