The Asia-Pacific region led in the number of data compromises investigated in 2017, accounting for 35% of instances and overtaking North America at 30%, down from 43%.
A Northern Light Acadia Hospital employee emailed a Bangor Daily News (“BDN”) reporter in response to a request for unrelated information, mistakenly sending an email with an attached file that contained information related to certain patients, Northern Light Acadia Hospital says.
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) announced that Errol Weiss will become the organization’s first Chief Security Officer (CSO).
The University of Rhode Island’s School of Education was awarded its second National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program for $1.2 million to recruit, prepare and mentor teachers of science and mathematics over the next five years.
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) released the findings of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, entitled "Actions Needed to Strengthen Oversight of Consumer Reporting Agencies."
The University of Michigan will begin offering optional active attacker training to students, faculty, staff and community members through a program called “Capable Guardian: Instruct, Evacuate, Shelter, Defend.”
Two-thirds of the country views technological advancement as having made their overall lives better compared to the lives of their parents, according to an Ipsos survey done on behalf of GET Creative, a division of USA TODAY NETWORK and the Charles Koch Institute.
A Ponemon Institute study has found that 73 percent of respondents believe their organization’s IT security functions are typically understaffed due to the difficulty in attracting and retaining qualified candidates.
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