Web Security Tips

In another nail to the heart of the internet security, the personal information along with Social Security details for over 100,000 doctors in Wausau Wisconsin were posted online for two months before anybody even noticed and took action. This seems to be the norm of today’s internet, where information is available to mostly everybody without knowing the impact and consequences of such errors. The error was blamed partly on human error and a software glitch which was to be corrected as soon as possible. The company, Health Net Federal Services(HNFS) who unwittingly posted the information online has accepted responsibility and has agreed to pay for a year’s credit monitoring for all 103,000 doctors who had private and confidential information posted publicly. This raises the concern up another notch for the way information is handled and treated which should be with utmost care and security. Such incidents, like the ones in the UK with the missing disks and UK driver’s data, they are all signs of the need for better information protection measures as the US has been trying to enforce.