A great article from Sophos Naked Security Blog. It is a must read to understand, yet another SSL vulnerability. You will also see why learning a bit more about crypto is necessary to understand such attack. It does bring the knowledge you learned in the Cryptography domain to good use.

A Rhode Island hospital must pay $150,000 after a data breach compromised more than 12,000 Massachusetts residents' personal information.

NIST announces the release of Special Publication 800-82, Revision 2, Guide to Industrial Control System (ICS) Security. Special Publication 800-82 provides guidance on how to improve the security in Industrial Control Systems (ICS)

2014 Cost of Data Breach Study From Ponemon Institute, sponsored by IBM

Groups hit with record $4.8M HIPAA fine

The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA, Title II)

This is Domain 4 of the Security+ CBK. It is covering 10% of the exam.

Much of Europe’s critical infrastructure which resides in sectors such as energy, transportation,water supply is largely managed and controlled by SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems, a subgroup of Industrial Control Systems (ICS).