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Banks losing ground on card security
Reuters
October 4, 2011

U.S. banks are losing ground in the battle to combat credit and debit card fraud, a new report shows, underscoring the growing threat thieves and hackers pose for the financial system. READ MORE...

Patient Data Posted Online in Major Breach of Privacy
New York Times
September 8, 2011

A medical privacy breach led to the public posting on a commercial Web site of data for 20,000 emergency room patients at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., including names and diagnosis codes, the hospital has confirmed. The inforation stayed online for nearly a year. READ MORE...

Cybersecurity is focus of new bills
Politico
September 7, 2011

House lawmakers have returned from the August recess resolved to fight the nation’s cyber adversaries with a flurry of new legislative proposals aiming to boost security of public and private networks and infrastructure. READ MORE...

Will PIV-I be the identity standard of the future
Secure ID News
August 29, 2011

It didn’t take long after the Personal Identification Verification (PIV) standard was unveiled and government employees were being issued credentials for someone to come up with PIV-Interoperable. READ MORE...

NIST publishes draft cyber workforce plan
Fierce Government IT
August 15, 2011

National Institute of Standards and Technology document says it aims to address two personal and national security risks: American citizens are largely unaware of cyber threats and the United States has a shortage of cybersecurity professionals. NIST published Aug. 11 a draft strategic plan (.pdf) for the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, an interagency program that aims to enhance cybersecurity education and awareness nationwide. READ MORE...

The road to electronic health records is lined with data thieves
Reuters
August 5, 2011

The future of your personal health information involves gigantic Internet-driven databases that connect you to doctors, health information and services no matter where you are and what time it is. READ MORE...

How Facial Recognition Technology Can Be Used To Get Your Social Security Number
Forbes
August 1, 2011

Those freaked out by facial recognition technology have fresh fodder: a study from Carnegie Mellon University in which researchers were able to predict people’s social security numbers after taking a photo of them with a cheap webcam. READ MORE...

Q&A: Jeremy Grant on NSTIC implications for government IT
Fierce Government IT
July 27, 2011

Back in April the White House released the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (.pdf), a government-coordinated effort to create a digital "identity ecosystem," executed by the private sector. Since then NSTIC lead, Jeremy Grant, the senior executive advisor for identity management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been hard at work bringing identity stakeholders to the table and asking (.pdf) industry, government, consumer groups and web citizens what an identity ecosystem should look like. READ MORE...

Breaches Lead to Push to Protect Medical Data
New York Times
May 30, 2011

Federal health officials call it the Wall of Shame. It’s a government Web page that lists nearly 300 hospitals, doctors and insurance companies that have reported significant breaches of medical privacy in the last couple of years. READ MORE...

Notebook: Digital Identity
CBS News
February 10, 2011

Katie Couric discusses the Commerce Department's idea for one user name for everything online instead of different user names and passwords for every website visited. READ MORE...