In-brief: OPM and IRS are just the latest incidents to expose the dire state of federal information security practice. The question is: why?
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Success Story? OPM Security Chief Trumpeted New Approach to Cyber
In-brief: Is the massive breach at the U.S. Government’s Office of Personnel Management a success story? Given the dire state of risk management within the federal government, the answer may be ‘yes.’
Clueless Clause: Insurer Cites Lax Security in Challenge to Cottage Health Claim
In-brief: In what may become a trend, an insurance company is denying a claim from a California healthcare provider following the leak of data on more than 32,000 patients. The insurer, Columbia Casualty, charges that Cottage Health System did an inadequate job of protecting patient data.
Everything Tastes Better with Bluetooth: Understanding IoT Risk
In-brief: Marc Blackmer of Cisco says that, with so much promise, it can be hard to anticipate how individual or company-wide decisions to embrace the IoT might bear on cyber risk.
Update: RSA Warns of Supply Chain Attack on Point of Sale Vendors
In-brief: RSA said it detected evidence of a malicious software campaign that targeted employees at point of sale vendors – a possible effort to compromise the PoS supply chain.
