Compliance ManagementCalifornia laws will increase penalties for patient data snoopersDan KaplanOctober 1, 2008Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation into law that will pose harsher penalties for hospital workers who pry into sensitive patient data.
Compliance ManagementGroup tells FTC more RFID security guidance is neededAngela MoscaritoloSeptember 24, 2008The Federal Trade Commission should tighten regulations around the use of RFID, urged an industry group.
Compliance ManagementFirefox adds privacy modeSue Marquette PorembaSeptember 12, 2008Mozilla, joining Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Google's nascent Chrome, plan to add a private browsing mode when it releases Firefox 3.1.
Compliance ManagementHealth information security standard issuedSue Marquette PorembaSeptember 10, 2008A new standard spells out detailed controls for managing health information security.
BreachCIS to release consensus IT security metricsSue Marquette PorembaSeptember 8, 2008Coming soon: An assemblage of consensus-based IT security metrics, developed by the Center for Internet Security (CIS).
BreachNetwork healthGreg MastersSeptember 3, 2008Monitoring and controlling who is accessing data at a health care facility has gotten simpler, reports Greg Masters.
Application securityData breaches already surpass 2007 totalSue Marquette PorembaAugust 26, 2008The number of reported data breaches has already surpassed last year's total, according to a report from Identity Theft Resource Center.
Compliance ManagementDetails in upcoming PCI DSS releasedChuck MillerAugust 19, 2008New changes in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard version 1.2 have been disclosed prior to its release in October.
