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For years the HIPAA regulations have been criticized as “lacking
any teeth” because no one had ever been sentenced to prison. That perception may
change in the not too distant future. Two former hospital employees and a
doctor plead guilty to misdemeanor violations of the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in a Little Rock federal court yesterday, reports ArkansasBusiness.com.
They were accused of inappropriately accessing the medical files of Anne Press... (more) |
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A law that would establish a database for storing the biometric
data of all Israeli citizens was approved for second and third readings by a
legislative committee yesterday, reports Israeli National News. The
Biometric Documents Identification Law would require every Israeli to submit
fingerprints and facial profiles to the government. The information would be
stored in an Interior Ministry database and would also be embedded into
Israelis' identity documents. Government offici... (more) |
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about medical identity theft. As Johns Hopkins is a DB Audit Expert customer, I was curious to understand the motivation for the rash of recent medical records breaches. It’s been a very busy summer for hackers targeting healthcare providers. All indications are that they’ve found a fertile hunting ground.
The University
of California-San Diego Moores Cancer Center is the
latest victim to go public. Hackers
broke into UCSD's Moores Cancer Center
c... (more) |
| It seems I
can't catch up with my news feeds. This morning I saw a recent post on Dark
Reading that caught my eye- Your First Three
Steps for database security. As these are supposed to be your first steps with database security, I
thought I’d relate the following stages to the capabilities inherent in DB
Audit Expert.
The
first stage -- locating the databases themselves.
The
second stage to securing your database environment is to enumerate the
data con... (more) |
| Without question, the most common technical use of DB Audit Expert is to
keep tabs on privileged account activities. Privileged accounts represent an
enormous threat to enterprises because these accounts can breach personal data,
complete unauthorized transactions, cause denial-of-service attacks, and hide
activity by deleting audit data.
Privileged accounts associated with database ownership are required for
emergency access scenarios as well as more mundane day-to-day tasks. While
im... (more) |
