California has extended its widely copied data breach notification law to encompass incidents including electronic medical and health insurance information.
It seems information security is getting to the front line of business imperatives. More than ever before, executives are giving IT security and data protection initiatives the attention they've required for some time
What had appeared to be an internal MySpace administration page, found on an online forum by a prominent security researcher, has been claimed by a domain-name registration and web-hosting vendor.
California has merged two major departments focused on information security and privacy into a single agency that will battle electronic identity theft.
Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has called for a new law allowing state residents to remove their personal information from internet phone directories and other sites that maintain and distribute records at no cost or for a fee.
In the final draft of its upcoming security guidelines for protecting federal information systems, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is recommending that federal agencies conduct regular penetration tests to determine whether their networks can be breached.
An initiative including several major IT security companies will try to set the bar for security practices applied to electronic-protected health information (EPHI) in an effort to level the playing field between companies sharing sensitive data.
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