Lorenzo's Security Blog

Image via Wikipedia The confidential health information of about 1,600 patients of Texas Children’s Hospital is at risk after a doctor’s laptop containing clinical and demographic information was stolen 2½ months ago. Notifying letters were mailed to parents of the affected children, cardiology patients of a Baylor College of Medicine doctor who practices at Texas [...]

  Image via Wikipedia PORTLAND, Ore. – A laptop belonging to an Oregon National Guard member was stolen this week and the military is contacting service members who might be affected by the theft. According to the Oregon National Guard, the laptop was stolen from a vehicle on Monday. The Guard member had been using [...]

  Image via Wikipedia Because of an incorrect security setting,[which security setting was the student even allowed to access?] an Ocean Lakes High School student was able to access a temporary file [Why was this temporary file not deleted after is was used? ] on a server that contained the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of students [...]

  Image via Wikipedia The University of Louisville in Kentucky on June 2 posted a public notice of a data breach in which protected health and financial information from its kidney disease program was posted on a publicly accessible Web site for 19 months.  According to local media reports, a physician who set up the [...]

  Image via Wikipedia A cabinet full of documents with sensitive information was found sitting on the side of the road. A woman made the discovery about a month ago, she gave the documents to investigators with Aetna Insurance Co. The woman said she saw a bureau on the side of the road in front [...]