Deadly Cobras, Data Breaches & Data in Space

Snake on a Plane?

South African pilot Rudolph Erasmus was flying four passengers from Bloemfontein to Pretoria when he began to realize something wasn’t quite right. At first, he thought his water bottle might have come loose and was leaking down his shirt, but then he saw that his plane was carrying a fifth passenger—a deadly king cobra. Erasmus told the BBC, "To be truly honest, it's as if my brain did not register what was going on." But Erasmus remained calm and informed his passengers so that they would be prepared should the snake appear in their part of the plan. Eventually Erasmus made an emergency landing and everyone got off the plane safely. The cobra remains missing.?

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Medical Data Transfers in Space?

It is well known that the secure transfer of sensitive medical data is a top priority for healthcare organizations, but for space travelers, too? According to SpaceRef.com, a consortium of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology, and the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine is exploring ways to safely send medical data into space for times when “health and research data management… will follow and serve the astronaut patient at each stage of their journey,” TRISH deputy director and chief innovation officer James Hury explained. “On Earth, these systems are bound by billing processes. In space, we need an incredible amount of flexibility paired with immediate usability of all the health, research and spaceflight environmental data collected during each mission.”?

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New Rules for Telecom Data Breaches Coming?

Telecommunications companies collect and store a lot of personally identifiable information (PII) and other sensitive data, but the industry’s data breach response and disclosure rules date back to 2007. A lot has changed since then, and according to CSO Magazine, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hopes to bring those rules up-to-date. The FCC announced a notice of proposed rulemaking and public comment in pursuit of that goal. In an announcement FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said, "The law requires carriers to protect sensitive consumer information but, given the increase in frequency, sophistication, and scale of data leaks, we must update our rules to protect consumers and strengthen reporting requirements.”?

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