Is HIPAA Privacy the Elephant In the Room?
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009 10:00-12:50 followed by Lunch.
Medial Privacy Under HIPAA and the HITECH Act
Implications of the New Mandatory Privacy Breach Requirements and Other HIPAA Privacy Developments
Round Table Discussion: Future Medical Privacy Flash Points
Progress? Maybe we can't use the computer to solve crimes, but we can use it to count the crimes we can't solve!
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/022474.html
October 02, 2009
UK Cybercrime Report 2009
"UK cybercrime has rebounded to worrying levels, not seen since 2006, as a result of the recession and consumer complacency, according to Garlik’s annual UK Cybercrime report, now in its third year. The report, which analyses publicly available data to build a comprehensive view of cybercrime in the UK, revealed that during 2008 cybercriminals adapted to the social and economic changes in the UK to exploit victims in new ways and commit over 3.6 million criminal acts online (that’s over one every 10 seconds). In addition, the researchers believe that there is a growing complacency amongst consumers, demonstrating poor understanding of their responsibility to protect their personal information against fraud. One of the most significant changes in cybercrime has been the 207% increase in account takeover fraud indicating that criminals have now shifted their efforts from opening new accounts with stolen identities to accessing existing accounts. Savvy criminals have got round the drying up of available credit in the current economic climate to maintain their illegal activities. The report also highlights that online banking fraud has increased by a staggering 132%, with losses totalling £52.5 million, compared to £22.6 million in the previous year. This sharp rise can be mostly attributed to nearly 44,000 phishing websites specifically targeting banks and building societies in the UK. The total number of cybercrimes has increased annually between 2006 and 2008, however, the good news is that sexual offences have decreased as a category each year. All other categories dipped in 2007 but then in 2008 bounced back above their 2006 figure."
Nothing new. Remember, computers only make the job easier, allowing higher volumes and the ability to reach anywhere in the world from your hideout in the Ukraine...
Identity Theft Is Usually an Unsophisticated Crime
Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 03, @01:28PM from the skilled-in-refuse-investigation dept.
apatrick writes
"A recent research report by Heith Copes (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and Lynne Vieraitis (University of Texas at Austin) has examined identity thieves and their methods. Copes and Vieraitis searched federal court records in the US for people convicted of identity theft and then tried to find out where they were serving their sentences. They were able to find 297 inmates, from which they sampled 59 inmates in 14 prisons across the country. The convicts agreed to do detailed interviews, in private, to talk about themselves and their crimes, and the results are reported in a recent issue of Criminal Justice Review. According to Copes and Vieraitis, 'it is best categorized as an economic crime committed by a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds through a variety of legitimate (e.g., mortgage broker) and illegitimate (e.g., burglar) occupations.' As to the issue of whether these are white-collar criminals, the authors say: 'Despite public perceptions of identity theft being a high-tech, computer driven crime, it is rather mundane and requires few technical skills. Identity thieves do not need to know how to hack into large, secure databases. They can simply dig through garbage or pay insiders for information. No particular group has a monopoly on the skills needed to be a capable identity thief.'"
Dilbert identifies the best use for Twitter!
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-10-04/
It's a privacy issue. And it's not the only way to identify users.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/03/2218220/ICANN-Studies-Secretive-Domain-Owners?from=rss
ICANN Studies Secretive Domain Owners
Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 04, @04:45AM from the all-swords-are-double-edged dept.
alphadogg quotes from a Network World piece reporting on ICANN's study of the prevalence of proxy services that shield registrants' personal information from WHOIS queries.
"Approximately 15% to 25% of domain names have been registered in a manner that limits the amount of personal information available to the public... according to the preliminary results of a report from ICANN... Domain owners who want to limit the amount of personal information available to the public generally use a privacy [proxy] service. ... [Proxy services] register domain names on behalf of registrants. The main objective of ICANN's study — which was based on a random sample of 2,400 domain names registered under .com, .net, .org, .biz, and .info — is to establish baseline information to inform the ICANN community on how common privacy and proxy services are."
Spammers and other miscreants abuse the ability to register domains by proxy, in order to avoid being found; but ordinary users have a legitimate interest in keeping their personal information out of the hands of those same bad actors. What's the right balance?
Since when is “Politician lies!” news? The difference (in the Internet age) is that the lies go into a huge database that helps everyone remember the lies. (This is a learning tool for young politicians)
Canadian Minister Lies On Net Surveillance Claims
Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 03, @05:43PM from the pants-on-fire dept.
An anonymous reader writes
"As we discussed last month, the Canadian government has introduced Internet surveillance legislation that requires ISPs to disclose customer information without a warrant. Peter Van Loan, the Minister in charge, claims that a Vancouver kidnapping earlier this year shows the need for these powers. Michael Geist did some digging and revealed this as a lie — the Vancouver police acknowledge that the case did not involve an ISP request and the suspect is now in custody."
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