Reps. Ted Lieu (D-California) and Will Hurd (R-Texas) have asked the Department of Health and Human Services to develop guidance that would require healthcare providers to immediately report cases of ransomware-related attacks to government
MoreThe Office of Personnel Management has updated its website in an effort to streamline information on the two data breaches in 2015 that compromised data of at least 21 million former and
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Senators from Maryland and Virginia have asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) to have the upper chamber vote on the confirmation of Beth Cobert, acting director at the Office of Personnel Management,
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Beth Cobert, acting director at the Office of Personnel Management, has said she is confident about the cybersecurity of the agency’s new information technology systems in an interview with the Washington Post published Wednesday.
MoreA spokesman for the Office of Personnel Management has said OPM has initiated steps to extend identify theft and credit monitoring services to victims of data breaches at the agency from three
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The General Services Administration‘s inspector general has found that the 18F digital services organization experienced a data breach due to the use of systems that are not approved under GSA’s Information Technology Standards
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has suffered five data breach incidents of at least 10,000 records since October and plans to introduce new measures to step up network security at the agency, the
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Government agencies continue to develop measures to prevent and detect insider threats in efforts to meet the standards of the National Insider Threat Task Force formed by President Barack Obama following the WikiLeaks release,
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A new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center says there were 6,013 reported cases of data breaches since 2005 across the government, financial services, healthcare and education sectors. The nonprofit organization collaborated
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A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. official has said that a former employee âinadvertentlyâ breached information of approximately 44,000 FDIC clients in February by downloading data to a personal storage device, the Washington
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