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Gang members, sex and drug convicts, and more were accidentally released from California state prisons after computer software designed to reduce prison numbers encountered a glitch.
Around 450 dangerous inmates were let go unsupervised onto the streets of California, the state’s inspector general confirmed.
A glitch in software lead to prison officials accidentally releasing “high risk [...]

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Above the Clouds: Managing Risk in the World of Cloud Computing
By Dick Weisinger
Security usually tops the lists of concerns that people have about the cloud. And now it seems like there is good reason. On a recent survey of 100 “elite” hackers at the 2010 Defcon conferenece, 96 of them [...]

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The Security Risk Assessment Handbook: A Complete Guide for Performing Security Risk Assessments
Definition – A risk assessment framework (RAF) is a strategy for prioritizing and sharing information about the security risks to an information technology (IT) infrastructure.
A good RAF organizes and presents information in a way that both technical [...]

Healthcare Organizations May Not Be Prepared for HITECH and Other Security Challenges
HIMSS News
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society releases its 2nd Annual Security Survey, sponsored by Symantec
CHICAGO (November 3, 2009) – With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act underway, healthcare organizations face new challenges to maintain privacy and security of patient health data. [...]