Archive for March, 2014

What Advocate Medical Group and Lindsay Lohan (?) Wished They Had Known About Data Protection

This past October AHMC Healthcare Inc. reported that the protected health information for over 700k patients had been compromised following the theft of two stolen laptops.  A couple months later, Lindsay Lohan’s handlers reported that her laptop  was stolen at

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Top Signs You’ll Get Hacked (Fast) in 2014

Target reported in a disclosure last Friday that they picked up signs of suspicious activity, but decided not to take immediate action.  Here are sure fire signs that you’ll probably be hacked in 2014 and what you can do right

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Preventing Your Database From Getting Hacked: What to Ask Your Software Vendors Right Now If I Were You

If you’re worried about your data getting hacked in 2014, you should be. I read an article about the Navy’s database recently getting hacked because they did not receive proper updates from their software vendor which exposed them to SQL

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How to Tell If Your Cloud Vendor is Bull*#$!-ing You About Security: Can They Access My Data?

Moving data to the cloud can be scary, especially if the data is sensitive or regulated in any way. I am willing to bet the number one question concerned organizations (and their auditors) wonder is this: Are they (cloud vendors)

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