I'm
not sure most organizations could meet this standard. Perhaps it is
time for a shared security function – outsource your security into
a “Group Buying Club?”
Paula
Stannard reminds us:
As a result of recent breaches – including breaches of health
information and information held by health insurers – a great deal
of attention has recently been focused on state data breach
notification requirements. Most States have general data breach
notification requirements that apply to all data breaches, including
those involving health information. A few States have specific data
breach laws applicable to health information or to certain types of
entities in the health care/health insurance industry. California is
one of such States – and it has made several significant revisions
to its statute, California Health and Safety Code § 1280.15,
effective January 1, 2015 (A.B. 1755).
If
you keep thinking that you have 60 days to notify under HIPAA and
HITECH, think again if you do business in California, because you
only have 15 days to notify the state and patients.
Read
more on Alston & Bird’s Privacy
& Data Security Blog.
(Related)
How long would it take you to check a full year of logs (do you keep
them that long?) for any possible victim of a breach? Is China
everywhere or is the FBI finding there software everywhere?
Elizabeth
Shim reports:
The FBI is probing into possible Chinese military involvement in a
data breach of Register.com, a network that manages
more than 1.4 million website addresses.
The Financial Times reported the cyber attack on the U.S.
company included
theft of employee passwords and unauthorized access to Register’s
network during a yearlong
breach that did not cause disruptions or theft of client data.
Read
more on UPI.
[From
the article:
However,
a company spokesman said to The Financial Times the firm is building
security protocols and tools to monitor and curb hacking threats.
[Apparently they didn't
have them before. Bob]
…
In February The Washington Post reported the Chinese government was
linked
to a hack of health insurance company Anthem.
In
that breach, a U.S. cyber security firm concluded the malware used
was identical to the code used against a small U.S. defense
contractor. The malware originated from China, according to the FBI.
“Well
golly gee willikers, it's the government – what could be wrong with
giving them anything they want?
Papers,
Please! Writes:
The first “interim”
release of documents responsive to our FOIA
request for records of police and other government access to Amtrak
reservation data show that Amtrak is not only giving police root
access and a dedicated user interface to mine passenger data for
general state and local law enforcement purposes, but also lying to
passengers about this, misleading Amtrak’s own IT and planning
staff about the legal basis for these actions, and violating Canadian
if not necessarily US law.
Read
more on Papers,
Please!
Your
camera as evidence? (Be sure to photograph a stack of bills with
“Past Due” stamped on them.)
Mike
Carter reports:
Federal prosecutors have taken the rare step of challenging the
appointment of publicly funded lawyers to represent accused Russian
hacker Roman Seleznev and have asked a judge to order Seleznev to
reimburse the government for his defense.
[…]
As proof, the government
provided the court with photographs of stacks of cash and
luxury cars found on
Seleznev’s phone and computer when he was arrested on
July 5 while vacationing in the Maldives, a tiny chain of islands in
the Indian Ocean.
Read
more on The
Seattle Times.
Well,
sure, if he can afford
a tropical vacation…
“We
can, therefore we must!” Software for parents who don't know how
to parent?
GM
Teen Driver Technology A Safe Bet To Limit, Monitor Young Drivers And
Create Serious Teen Angst
…
Teen Driver is meant to promote safe driving behavior for teens when
they don’t have adult supervision in the car to make them
“straighten up and fly right.”
A
parent can enable Teen Driver in the MyLink
Settings menu and create a PIN, which is then registered to the
teen’s key fob. Once that step is taken, parents have full control
over a number of in-vehicle features, performance capabilities, and
even alert systems for their teen driver.
…
One such “nanny” feature is the ability to mute the radio until
front seat passengers have fastened their seat belts. Parents also
have full control over the maximum volume of the radio, so don’t
think that you’re gonna go cruising down the street, windows down,
with death metal cranked all the way up.
And
if you’re thinking about blasting down the highway at 100 mph in
daddy’s new Malibu, guess again. Your old man can set a maximum
driving speed anywhere the range of 40 to 75 mph lest you get any
wild ideas. If a teen were to attempt to fly past those limits,
alarm bells would start ringing in the vehicle’s cabin.
…
Teen Driver will allow parents to keep track of the maximum speed
driven, over-speed alerts, distance traveled (thinking about ditching
school to make a quick road trip; guess again), and any instances
where the antilock brakes or stability control had to kick in.
Every
week, as welcome a sunshine.
Hack
Education Weekly News
…
Phil Hill offers a round-up
of news and analysis about Rutgers University and ProctorTrack,
“which costs students $32 in additional fees, accessing their
personal webcams, automatically tracks face and knuckle video as well
as watching browser activity.” He adds, “Student
privacy is a big issue, and students should have some input into the
policies shaped by institutions.”
…
Via
Go To Hellman: “16 of the top 20 Research Journals Let Ad
Networks Spy on Their Readers.”
…
The
University of Rochester is demanding that Yik Yak turn over “the
names, email addresses and other information that would help the
college identify UR students who might have posted racially offensive
and threatening language.”
…
Pacific Standard has several recent articles exploring adjunct labor
on college campuses: “The
Professor Charity Case” and “Survey:
The State of Adjunct Professors.”
How
strange. Perhaps education in immoral?
Internet
Seen as Positive Influence on Education but Negative on Morality in
Emerging and Developing Nations
Perfect
timing. This is the last day of class (all papers are due) and we've
been developing ways to do this all quarter.
How
to Follow a #Hashtag Across Multiple Social Networks
A
few weeks ago I wrote a post about using Tagboard
to follow a hashtag across multiple social networks. As I wrote back
then, the beauty of Tagboard is that I can follow a hashtag and see
all of the Tweets, Instgram, Facebook, and Google+ posts about it in
one place. This enables me to quickly catch up with what people are
sharing about an event or saying in a chat like #edchat. In the
video embedded below I provide an overview of how to use Tagboard.
For
my Android toting students.
Productivity
Problems? Check Out This Productivity Android App Guide
…
Want more on productivity?
Check out our whole Self
Improvement section which will provide you with all kinds of
tools and skills you can use to work smarter. While you’re at it,
don’t forget the Android
section that covers everything from the hottest devices to the
newest apps!
Via
TopApps
My
students might find these useful too.
Two
New Apps That Are Great for Recording Audio Interviews
This
week I tested two new apps for recording audio interviews. Both of
these apps can be used by students without creating any kind of new
online accounts. Neither one is entirely perfect, but they're both
quite good.
Opinion
is a free iPad app for creating short audio recordings.
To record simply open the app and tap the big red recording button at
the top of the screen. When you're done talking, tap the recording
button again to stop the recording. You can chop your recording into
smaller pieces by tapping on your recording then tapping the scissors
icon to cut your recording. Opinion recordings can be shared to a
variety of places on the web including SoundCloud and Evernote.
Opinion limits you to ten minutes of recording before you have to
either upgrade or eliminate older recordings.
StoryCorps
has a new app called StoryCorps.me
that Larry
Ferlazzo raved about earlier this week. The app is available for
iPhone (it will also work on iPads, it's just a little grainy
looking) and Android devices. StoryCorps.me will try to force you to
create a StoryCorps account, but you can use it without creating an
account. Creating an account will allow you to publish your
recordings on the StoryCorps website.
StoryCorps.me
is designed to help people conduct and record great interviews. The
app includes a set of questions that you can use in your interview.
The question sets are varied depending upon the relationship that you
do or don't have with your interviewee. While recording your
interview you can swipe through the questions to help you keep the
interview on track. Completed recordings can saved on your device
and or shared with the StoryCorps community.
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