Tag: Fraud
Human errors are the most common threats to exposing a person’s personal information to data breaches according to an analysis of reported data breaches...
Health care fraud and abuse has been in the national spotlight for years. But now that the Affordable Care Act is coming into play,...
Swimmers may be stealing the spotlight, but it’s scammers who are taking home the gold–in the form of stolen credit card numbers, PINs, consumers’...
Like Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire, we’d all like to think that we can depend upon the kindness of strangers. Unfortunately, Symantec...
Internet safety isn’t just for the employees who handle your most sensitive data. It’s for each and every one. With June being National Internet...
For a company, a data breach can seem like it comes out of the blue. Yet, according to analysis by the Identity Theft Resource Center...
The average value of a lost laptop is $49,246, a number based on several factors: replacement cost, detection, forensics, data breach, lost intellectual property...
It can be unnerving to be told that your information has been compromised in a data breach. The uncertainty of not knowing all the...
These days, the fraud economy has matured to a point where it is run like a global marketplace, with specialists for every aspect of...
Legislation has been introduced in Congress to crack down on Medicare and Medicaid fraud. This legislation comes at a time when incidents of medical...
Recently I addressed the importance of having plans in place to protect personal health information in light of the sharp increase in healthcare data...
Just as the healthcare industry came up to speed on the regulations defined in The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ("HITECH")...