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Hospital Pays $1M Penalty For Loss Of Patient Data->

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Batblue
Batblue writes "All security professionals fear the consequences of an online hack or of failing a compliance audit. But last week, a Massachusetts hospital was forced to pay $1 million in penalties for what might have been an honest mistake.

According to a settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services (PDF), Massachusetts General Hospital has agreed to pay a $1 million "resolution" for the loss of records containing the personal health information of 192 individuals. The penalty follows a lawsuit filed by two HIV-positive patients whose records were among those lost.

The stiff penalty is the result of an incident that occurred two years ago, when a hospital billing manager took the paper records out of the hospital offices in order to work on them from home. The billing manager mistakenly left the records behind on an MBTA subway train, where they were lost and never recovered."
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SSDs cause crisis for digital forensics-> 5

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rifles only writes "Firmware built into many solid state drives (SSDs) to improve their storage efficiency could be making forensic analysis at a later date by police forces and intelligence agencies almost impossible to carry out to legally safe standards, Australian researchers have discovered.

They found that SSDs start wiping themselves within minutes after a quick format (or a file delete or full format) and can even do so when disconnected from a PC and rigged up to a hardware blocker."
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Comment: Why didn't they do this before (Score 1) 2

by E5Rebel (#35313676) Attached to: LSE calls crisis meeting with market data vendors
Big implemenation, complex processes, why weren't they having meetings with their customers daily after teh switch over? Why weren't they running the new platform and the old one in tandem to have a fall back in case of problems. No doubt there will be fault on all sides, but one thing is certain. London's reputation as a financial powerhosue has taken another beating.
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LSE calls crisis meeting with market data vendors-> 2

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DMandPenfold writes "The London Stock Exchange has called an urgent meeting next week with price data vendors, in an attempt to solve the serious market stock price irregularities appearing on traders’ screens since the exchange launched its new trading software.

The meeting, taking place on Tuesday, will involve many of the major vendors that have been displaying incorrect and blank stock prices. They are expected to address the problems and potential short and long-term solutions..."
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LSE hauled offline after major data problem->

Submitted by DMandPenfold
DMandPenfold writes "The London Stock Exchange stopped trading this morning immediately after the opening auction, which experienced a major technical glitch.

The news comes at the end of the second week of trading on the exchange’s new Millennium trading system. Over the last fortnight, anger has been growing after large vendors that supply price data to the market continually experienced significant technical difficulties, including displaying entirely inaccurate and blank prices."
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UK govt gets really serious about open source->

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E5Rebel
E5Rebel writes "The move to Open Source is being driven both from the prime minsiter's office, and from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You will hear the Prime Minister talking about Open Government quite a bit over the next few weeks. Open Government consciously includes Open Source as well as Open Standards and Open Data, and this is being driven directly from the top of the Coalition Government. Good news."
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Borsa Italiana halts trading after data glitch->

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DMandPenfold writes "Borsa Italiana, the Milan trading venue owned by the London Stock Exchange, has halted trading after problems on its price data feeds.

An investigation is ongoing into the problem, which this morning was described by Borsa Italiana as “a technical issue on the price information systems”.

Borsa Italiana runs on the TradElect system, based on Microsoft .Net and written in C#, recently dumped by the LSE in favour of Millennium Exchange, written in C++ and based on Novell SUSE Linux servers. The LSE has also been experiencing price data feed problems on its own replacement system, but these issues are thought to be unrelated."
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Lawyers Using Facebook Research for Jury Selection-> 2

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unassimilatible writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that trial lawyers are increasingly using social networking sites like Facebook to research jurors in real-time during the voir dire process. Armando Villalobos, the district attorney of Cameron County, Brownsville, Texas, last year equipped his prosecutors with iPads to scan the Web during jury selection. But what of the jurors who have their privacy settings restricted to "friends only?" Mr. Villalobos has thought of a potential workaround: granting members of the jury pool free access to the court's wi-fi network in exchange for temporarily "friending" his office. Faustian bargain, or another way to get out of jury duty?"
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iPhone workers still sick after chemical poisoning->

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swandives
swandives writes "Chinese workers who suffered chemical poisoning after being exposed to n-hexane on an iPhone production line are still experiencing health problems, even though Apple reports "all affected workers have been treated successfully" in its most recent progress report on its suppliers. n-hexane is a chemical cleaning agent that was used at one of its supplier's factories in Suzhou, China."
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