More bits and pieces of information in this report, but nothing that
really tells me if a mainframe was involved.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/07/anthem-hack-80-million-lawsuits-data-privacy/23037879/
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an issue is "something you know" shared secrets for authenticati
At 11:00 +0800 on 02/08/2015, Timothy Sipples wrote about Re: Anthem
Healthcare Hacked:
Tom Brennan writes:
Maybe someone can tell me what difference it makes whether the data was
encrypted on disk or not (as some news reports are talking about). I
mean, if I do a SELECT * from an admin id I
On 7 February 2015 at 22:00, Timothy Sipples wrote:
> I'm assuming customers use IBM mainframes and use these wonderful
> capabilities (and others) IBM provides. Big assumptions, sadly violated too
> often.
Now it's (sadly) a "violation" to not use an IBM mainframe?! I know
IBM has top lawyers an
According to Anthem's website, it was formed by the merger of Wellpoint and
Anthem.
According to http://mainframes.wikidot.com/, Wellpoint is a mainframe shop.
Hopefully as additional details will become available. It seems, that
unless you are in the know, which I'm not, that facts are in short
One of an article says the hack assumingly happened from an external Web
storage.
So not a mainframe ?
Jake
On 8 Feb 2015 08:31, "Timothy Sipples" wrote:
> Tom Brennan writes:
> >Maybe someone can tell me what difference it makes whether the data was
> >encrypted on disk or not (as some news re
Tom Brennan writes:
>Maybe someone can tell me what difference it makes whether the data was
>encrypted on disk or not (as some news reports are talking about). I
>mean, if I do a SELECT * from an admin id I must be going through the
>decrypt process, right?
No, that's not a given. Many financial
Anthem's stolen customer data not encrypted; But under federal law,
health insurance companies don't have to encrypt user data.
http://www.cnet.com/news/anthems-hacked-customer-data-was-not-encrypted/
In early part of century, I was co-author of financial industry privacy
standard ... and we had s
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On 6 February 2015 at 15:47, Jousma, David wrote:
> I'll be honest. I do not understand the need for encryption at the disk
> hardware control unit level. I get it for tape, if tape is being
> transported, or handled by humans. Seems like that would *only* protect data
> if the DASD box was
t: Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked
I'll be honest. I do not understand the need for encryption at the disk
hardware control unit level. I get it for tape, if tape is being transported,
or handled by humans. Seems like that would *only* protect data if the DASD
box was being transported som
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On 6 February 2015 at 14:22, Tom Brennan wrote:
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On 6 February 2015 at 14:22, Tom Brennan wrote:
> Maybe someone can tell me what difference it makes whether the data was
> encrypted on disk or not (as some news reports are talking about). I mean,
> if I do a SELECT * from an admin id I must be going through the decrypt
> process, right? So it
I believe they do have mainframes - but I haven't yet seen anything
indicating whether this is mainframe, unix, windows, or what. The only
detail I saw reported (which may or may not be true) was that a database
admin saw his id being used for things he did not initiate. So if we
assume the h
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Feb 2015 12:51
Subject: Anthem Healthcare Hacked
http://www.darkreading.com/risk/a-mere-eight-days-after-breach-anthem-healthcare-notifies-customers-/d/d-id/1318979
Watch the wrap.
Are they a mainframe shop?
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http://www.darkreading.com/risk/a-mere-eight-days-after-breach-anthem-healthcare-notifies-customers-/d/d-id/1318979
Watch the wrap.
Are they a mainframe shop?
Thanks,
Mark Regan, USNR-Ret,
http://www.darkreading.com/risk/a-mere-eight-days-after-breach-anthem-healthcare-notifies-customers-/d/d-id/1318979
Watch the wrap.
Are they a mainframe shop?
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