It looks like China has
decided to let everyone know that their military build-up is
complete. Now if all this chest thumping can be contained, we won't
have a war. But then these are the folks who advise North Korea, so
expect a few “regrettable incidents.” (Whatever it takes to make
the evening news)
South
Korea, Japan join U.S. in defying Chinese air defense zone
South Korean and
Japanese flights through China's new maritime air defense zone added
to the international defiance Thursday of rules Beijing says it has
imposed in East China Sea but that neighbors and the U.S. have vowed
to ignore.
(Related) Nice photo
of what we call “a target.”
China's
carrier group had 'innocent passage' through Taiwan Strait
Not large, but a bit
slow on the notifications (and a bit vague elsewhere) Again,
outsiders had to tell the college they had been breached.
Tim Gallen and Mike
Sunnucks report:
The
Maricopa County Community College District is notifying nearly 2.5
million students, former students, vendors and employees because
their personal information may have been exposed in a security
breach.
The
Tempe-based college district announced today that it is contacting
2.49 million students, employees and suppliers that their information
may have been exposed without authorization.
Sensitive
information such as names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and
bank account information was exposed, according to the district.
MCCCD operates 10 community colleges and also has dual enrollment
programs with local high schools.
However,
MCCCD officials are not aware of any evidence of any misuses of
personal information. [Can we agree failing to secure the data
is misuse? Bob] Spokesman Tom Gariepy said students or others
who worry about identity theft or other fraud can contact a credit
services company the district has hired.
“While
we are not aware of misuse of anyone’s personal information, we are
providing resources to assist all of the people whose information was
in these systems, including credit monitoring and other identity
safeguards, managed by a nationally known identity protection firm,”
said MCCCD Chancellor Rufus Glasper in a statement. “We are
examining every aspect of our IT operations, and the changes underway
are making us stronger system-wide.”
District
officials learned of IT security issues in April
this year and began investigating.
Read more on Phoenix
Business Journal. In related coverage, KPHO
reports that the college district learned of the breach from
federal law enforcement on April 29. They also report that As names,
dates of birth, Social Security numbers and bank account information
– but not credit card information or health records – was
exposed. Neither news source is clear about the nature of the
breach.
The latest version of
“inadequate and confusing?” The only rules I know of that you
can fully comply with and apparently still be violation of...
Earlier
this month, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI
SSC) released
Version 3.0 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI
DSS), which includes several enhanced security requirements that
will affect how businesses protect payment card data in their
systems. The updated standard calls upon businesses to take a more
active role in security compliance. It also addresses several common
vulnerabilities in the cardholder data environment, including weak
passwords, fallible authentication methods, unpatched malware
protection, and inadequate threat monitoring practices. The end
result is a standard that gives businesses a clearer, yet more
stringent, set of baseline requirements for protecting cardholder
data. Compliance with Version 3.0 is required as of January 1, 2015,
although some of the new requirements will not go into effect until
July 1, 2015. Until then, they are recommended as best practices.
Read more on Hogan
Lovells Chronicle
of Data Protection.
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