Data Destruction Topics

Processor Already Paid $60 Million to Visa to
Settle 2008 Data Intrusion

After agreeing to a $60 million settlement with Visa earlier in the year, Heartland Payment Systems has added another $41 million to the pot for MasterCard. These amounts are most likely accounted for in a $139 million [...]

Affinity May Be Looking at HITECH Act Penalties

A hard drive lurks within your networked digital copier or printer

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Cypher ultra-portable erasure kit meets NIST and DOD standards.
HITECH Act now in effect for medical organizations
NIST special publication 800-88 media sanitization guidelines

In November of 2009, Data Destruction Topics reported on the data-breach-waiting-to-happen related to digital [...]

Stolen Computers Have Health Insurer
Feeling Blue and Cross

Stolen Computers Trigger a Big Financial Bite and Public Relations Nightmare

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Updates on New and Pending Legislation.
New Enterprise Level Data Erasure methods
NIST special publication 800-88 media sanitization guidelines

Can we just say this up front? The expenditure of a few thousand dollars in October could have saved BlueCross BlueShield [...]

Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2009:

First of More Aggressive Federal Oversight

Personal Data Privacy and Security Act Specifies More Aggressive Sentences

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Updates on New and Pending Legislation.
Comparison of hard drive erasure methods
NIST special publication 800-88 media sanitization guidelines

Senator Leahy’s new bill ups the ante for acts of data piracy and also failure to [...]

Three key attributes separate software overwriting (clearing) HDD data sanitization methods from Secure Erase enabled hardware devices.

Firmware based Security Erase devices are able to access hidden partitions in order to erase hard drives

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Hammer now able to access data on G-List sectors.
Comparison of hard drive erasure methods
NIST special publication 800-88 media sanitization guidelines

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New HITECH regulations include renewed focus on HIPAA compliance

Stimulus Bill Includes Increases In Fines for HIPAA Privacy Breaches

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Updates on Regulatory topics affecting data security laws.
HIPAA privacy rule summary
NIST special publication 800-88 media sanitization guidelines

It appears that some elements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are having a positive affect on the economy. [...]

Fines Up to $3,500 for Failure to Draft IT Security Plans

New Safeguard rule from the FTC require an expanded list of businesses and organizations to submit data security plans

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FACTA rule for disposal of sensitive consumer data.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
HIPAA privacy rule summary
NIST special publication 800-88 media sanitization guidelines
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Following a decade [...]