While most of the media understandably covers the search for a new President of the United States, we couldn't help but notice another job going begging at the White House: CISO. Which got us to thinking...
The director of the FBI repeated his "encryption thwarts law enforcement" mantra before a Senate committee as a pair of Congressmen introduced legislation designed to effectively ban state and local governments from mandating decryption.
The Judicial Redress Act was given the thumbs up by the Senate and the House Wednesday and is now headed for President Obama's desk to be signed into law.
The Internal Revenue Service pinned a recent attempt to infiltrate its systems on malfeasants using a bot and Social Security numbers stolen from other sources but said the attackers didn't compromise or expose personal information of taxpayers.
The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) announced yesterday that employees at two state agencies committed a HIPAA violation by improperly exchanging private data pertaining to its Apple Health Medicaid clients.
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