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Not long ago I got into an argument with an information security (“infosec”) person about that dirty word we all love to hate, compliance <shudder>. This person’s position was that compliance does not matter and does not advance the state of security…
This morning news broke that another member of the Blue Cross family, this time Excellus, was hacked, exposing approximately 10.5 million records. The hack originally began December 23, 2013, but was not discovered until August 5, 2015. In other words, Blue Cross had a persistent…
On August 24, 2015, a US Appeals Court ruled that a company can be sued by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) for the criminal behaviors of a third party; based upon the failure of a company to meet its duty to…