Lorenzo's Security Blog

  Image via Wikipedia Milton Hospital and Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester will soon be contacting thousands of patients whose medical records were found at a public dump in late July. Both hospitals have posted information for patients on their websites and are making plans to send letters to all patients who were involved in [...]

Heartland Payment Systems Inc., a New Jersey-based payments processor, has agreed to pay up to roughly $60 million to cover losses caused to Visa Inc. credit and debit cardholders as a result of a huge 2008 security breach, the companies have announced. Image via Wikipedia The settlement agreement is contingent upon acceptance by financial institutions [...]

BALTIMORE (AP) ? A woman who worked as a patient services coordinator for Johns Hopkins Medicine has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing patient information. Thirty-one-year-old Michelle Courtney Johnson of Baltimore was also ordered at sentencing on Friday to pay more than Image via Wikipedia $200,000 in restitution. According to her plea [...]

Image via Wikipedia The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved two bills that would require organizations with data breaches to report them to potential victims. The Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to approve both the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act and the Data Breach Notification Act by large majorities. The Data Breach Notification Act, [...]

In all of 2008, 40 banking institutions failed – 25 banks and 15 credit unions.  [Donald] How many of us knew these banks and credit un ions closed?  Even better, why did they close? So far in 2009, 72 institutions have either been closed or taken over by regulators, including 7 banks just this past [...]