Articles Tagged with ''data security''

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA), which protects the use of student educational data by third-party vendors.

A computer hacker broke into part of the HealthCare.gov insurance enrollment website in July and uploaded malicious software.

The app keeps users informed about choosing what information is safe to transmit on WiFi networks.

Nearly three in 10 global consumers do not trust retailers to protect stored personal or financial data against cyber risks, and 58 percent think financial institutions do a better job of protecting data than retailers, government agencies or law enforcement.

The study also found that almost half of the small business owners surveyed conduct no regular audits of their security protocols, and three in 10 have never performed an audit.

While legislators have passed a multitude of statutes to aid in the protection of our economic interests pertaining to data systems – non-physical assets and privacy – frequently any course of action is still determined by the concept of monetary loss and treated as if someone was stealing or damaging physical assets, or as in the case of the Stored Communications Act (SCA), creating a statue that has been described as dense and confusing to even legal scholars.

When the Department of Homeland Security purposefully dropped data disks and USB flash drives in the parking lots of federal agencies and government contractors, 60 percent of the found objects were inserted into an agency or contractor network.

Hackers have broken into the credit and debit card payment networks at supermarket chains Albertson's and SuperValu.