Compliance:  IT Friend or Foe Event

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Are you struggling with the different regulations or standards you need to comply with?  What policies do you have in place today to deal with data breaches?  In this challenging economic climate, what can you do to protect your business against these data breach changing threats with limited budgets and resources? Join Sophos security expert Nagraj Seshadri and leading industry expert, Dr. Larry Ponemon, Ponemon Institute to learn more about the impact of compliance regulations and get practical advice on data protection strategies.

We’ll discuss these key topics and more:

• State regulations and what that means to your organization
• Compliance:  IT Friend or Foe
• Compliance Economic Impact on Organizations

CHAPEL HILL A hacker has infiltrated a computer server housing the personal data of 236,000 women enrolled in a UNC Chapel Hill research study. Among the information exposed: the Social Security numbers of 163,000 participants.
The data is part of the Carolina Mammography Registry, a 14-year-old project that compiles and analyzes mammography data submitted...

>> read the complete article at: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/967722.html

North Carolina, Education

Consumers face a greater risk of losing control of their data when doing business with smaller retailers, as many haven't made investments to comply with the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), according to a new survey.

>> read complete article at: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172438/pci_survey_finds_some_merchants_dont_use_antivirus_software.html

IDG News Service - A construction company in Maine is suing its bank after about $588,000 disappeared from its accounts, alleging the bank failed to spot suspicious account activity before it was too late.

Over a week-long period in May, fraudsters made six transfers from the online bank accounts of Patco Construction Company, a family-owned developer in Sanford, Maine, according a copy of the lawsuit on the Washington Post's Web site.

>> read complete article at: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138467/Construction_firm_sues_after_588_000_online_theft?source=rss_security

Maine

A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data.

According to a court document in the case, in August a customer of the Rocky Mountain Bank asked a bank employee to send certain loan statements to a representative of the customer. The employee, however, inadvertently sent the e-mail to the wrong Gmail address. Additionally, the employee had attached a sensitive file to the e-mail that should not have been sent at all

>> read complete article at: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/bank-sues-google/

BOSTON — A former Plymouth County jail inmate has admitted to hacking into the jail’s computer system to access personal information on more than 1,100 jail workers, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Francis G. Janosko, 43, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to a charge of intentional damage to a protected computer. Initially, he had also been charged with aggravated identity theft.
>> Read more: http://www.patriotledger.com/news/x1554702936/Former-inmate-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-prison-computer-system

data breach, identity theft, ma

A former US inmate has pleaded guilty to hacking into the prison's computer system to obtain the personal data of more than 1,100 prison service workers.
Francis G Janosko, 43, of Halifax and Plymouth, Massachussets, confessed to computer hacking offences on Tuesday. In return, charges of aggravated identity theft were dropped.
>> Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/16/prison_computer_hack_guilty_plea/

identity theft, MA,

It was a bad idea from the start, but even as bad ideas go, this one went horribly wrong.
A 38-year-old Avon Lake, Ohio, man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he allegedly meant to install on the computer of a woman he'd had a relationship with ended up infecting computers at Akron Children's Hospital.
>> Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172185/misdirected_spyware_infects_ohio_hospital.html