[NepSecure] This week is a big week. It is National Crime Victims Rights’ Week...

[Bipin Gautam]

This week is a big week. It is National Crime Victims Rights’ Week...

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I came to know from a source our government servers are repeatedly
hosting mailware.

In other News Mercentile Communication seem to loose a big "lum sum"
of corporate data and personal records including login and sources of
nepalnews.com! They even host keygens there... ;)

what is corporate data doing online:
http://74.125.77.132/search?hl=ne&source=hp&q=cache%3Ademo.com.np


Happy cleaning... :)

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News: This week is a big week. It is National Crime Victims Rights’ Week...

Source: http://itacidentityblog.com/

Monday Morning News Kick Off: Red Flags Still Applies to Physicians,
Cyber Command Nominee, and the U.N. and Cyber Crime

RedFlagsWelcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post. As always,
we have compiled all the key stories regarding identity theft, cyber
security and data breaches. This week is a big week. It is National
Crime Victims Rights’ Week. We have already shared our insights (via
Anne Wallace, ITAC President) about the importance of this week.
Regarding other news, today we cover stories about the FTC and Red
Flags, data breaches and Australia, and the UN being split on cyber
crime conventions.

ID Theft Rule Still Applies to Physicians, FTC Says
The Federal Trade Commission rejected organized medicine’s request to
exempt physicians and other health care professionals from an identity
theft prevention regulation, despite a recent court decision excluding
attorneys from the rule. A 2009 ruling by the U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia found that the FTC exceeded its authority in
enforcing its “red flags” rule against lawyers. But in a March 25
letter to the American Medical Assn. and other health care
organizations, the commission said it was unclear whether the ruling,
if upheld, would apply outside of the legal profession. The FTC is
appealing the decision in the case, brought by the American Bar Assn.
Read the full American Medical News article here.

Paradise Lost: A Decade of Data Breaches
Do you think the moat around Australia extends around your business
and hackers won’t target you? It doesn’t, and research says data
breaches will be the elephant-in-the-conference-room at your next IT
meet. Australia has to date been sheltered from much of the painful
data breach disclosure laws sweeping the world, and organizations here
appear to have avoided the high-profile hacks that have plagued others
over the last decade. But are we as lucky as it would appear? Read the
full Network World article here.

Data breached? Culprit Could be a Former Employee
So your data are encrypted, and you have access controls on your
computer systems to prevent outside attacks from hackers. But you’re
still not totally protected from unauthorized outside access. Your
former employees may be able to get back into your system. Many
practices and hospitals focus on how to prevent current employees from
snooping or stealing information, but they forget about people who
have left the organization and still could do damage. Read the full
American Medical News article here.

Senators Question Cyber Command Nominee
The Obama administration’s candidate to lead the U.S. effort against
cyber warfare assured lawmakers Thursday he can successfully balance
the strategic military, technological, and cooperative aspects of the
job he hopes to take on. In his confirmation hearing last week before
the Senate Armed Services Committee, Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander fielded
questions about how he would perform in a position created only last
year to perform a task some lawmakers themselves admittedly don’t
quite understand. Read the full InformationWeek story here.

Targeted Cyberattacks Testing IT Managers
Targeted cyberattacks of the sort that hit Google Inc. earlier this
year are testing enterprise security models in new ways, and they
represent an imminent threat to sensitive corporate data.
State-sponsored groups with deep technical skills and computing
resources have long been directing such attacks against government and
military targets. However, Google’s disclosure in January that its
network was attacked by China-based hackers stoked long-standing fears
that cybercrooks would expand their horizons and start aiming targeted
attacks at commercial networks. Read the full Computerworld story
here.

UN Split on Cybercrime Conventions
A United Nations committee on international crime prevention is split
on how to deal with cybercrime. Some countries want the existing
European convention to be adopted worldwide, while others want a
completely new agreement to be created. At the UN Congress on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice in Brazil last week nations debated
how to tackle what they agreed was a major and growing problem.
Delegates identified the main problems as computer-based fraud and
forgery, illegal interception of private communications, interference
with data and misuse of electronic devices, according to a
UN-published account of the meeting. Read the full Register article
here.

Happy Monday!
April 19th, 2010 in Daily News, Guest Posts | tags: Anne Wallace, Anne
Wallace and ITAC, cyber, Cyber Command, Cyber crime, Data Breach, Data
Fraud, ID Theft, Identity Theft, Identity Theft Assistance Center,
ITAC, National Crime Victims Rights’ Week, Network Security, Red Flags
and FTC, Red Flags Rule, Security

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