Someone knows you are reading this. They know what device you are using. They know if you make it all the way to the end (which I hope you do!). They may be watching you read it, and listening to you. They know exactly where you are right now, and where you've been. As FBI Director James Comey recently proclaimed, "there is no thing as absolute privacy in America." Director Comey was speaking about legal snooping, authorized by the courts and carried out by law enforcement agencies, but, in many ways, that may be the least of our privacy concerns...
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FDA Offers Final Guidance For Medical Device Cybersecurity
Mike Miliard | Government Health IT | October 2, 2014
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration posted newly-minted recommendations for protecting medical devices from attackers...
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Feds Investigating Two Dozen Potential Hacks Targeting Life-Saving Medical Devices
Staff Writer | RT USA | October 22, 2014
A senior official at the Department of Homeland Security tells Reuters that government experts are now investigating upwards of two dozen instances in which high-tech medical products may be prone to hackers...
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Flaw Lets Hackers Control Electronic Highway Billboards
Aliya Sternstein | Nextgov.com | June 5, 2014
The Homeland Security Department is cautioning transportation operators about a security hole in some electronic freeway billboards that could let hackers display bogus warnings to drivers...
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Foreign Countries Hack VA System And Expose Vulnerabilities
Patrick Ouellette | HealthITSecurity.com | June 5, 2013
The Veterans Health Administration, the largest integrated health care system in the U.S., has reportedly been hacked numerous times by foreign countries such as China and Russia since 2010... Read More »
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Forensic Scientist Identifies Suspicious 'Back Doors' Running On Every iOS Device
Jason D. O'Grady | ZD Net | July 21, 2014
During his talk at HOPE/X Jonathan Zdziarski detailed several undocumented services (with names like 'lockdownd,' 'pcapd,' 'mobile.file_relay,' and 'house_arrest') that run in the background on over 600 million iOS devices...
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Google Glass And Other Devices Presenting New Crop Of Privacy Risks
Rick Kam | Government Health IT | August 14, 2013
Scarcely a day passes when we don’t hear about some new electronic gadget designed to make our lives more productive, convenient, healthy, or entertaining. Read More »
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Governments Get Open On GitHub
Phil Johnson | ITWorld | October 22, 2013
A new GitHub site aggregates and showcases the open source repositories managed by governments and civic minded hackers Read More »
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Hacker Calls Health Security "Wild West'
Erin McCann | HealthCare IT News | June 11, 2014
As head of the security consulting firm Secure Ideas, [Kevin Johnson's] job involves probing into organizations' networks and applications to identify vulnerabilities. And what he sees in healthcare terrifies him...
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Hacker Weev Free After Appeal
Thomas Claburn | Information Week | April 11, 2014
Andrew Auernheimer, better known on the Internet as "weev," has had his sentence overturned by a federal appeals court, righting what many advocacy groups regarded as an unfair conviction. In 2010, Auernheimer and co-defendant Daniel Spitler found a way to access the email addresses of AT&T iPad owners through AT&T's website.
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Hackers Are Coming for Your Healthcare Records -- Here’s Why
Lucas Mearian | Computer World | June 30, 2016
Data stolen from a bank quickly becomes useless once the breach is discovered and passcodes are changed. But data from the healthcare industry, which includes both personal identities and medical histories, can live a lifetime. Cyberattacks will cost hospitals more than $305 billion over the next five years and one in 13 patients will have their data compromised by a hack, according to industry consultancy Accenture. And a study by the Brookings Institution predicts that one in four data breaches this year will hit the healthcare industry...
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Hackers Conceal Spyware In Industrial Software Firm's Site To Probe Visitors
Staff Writer | Nextgov.com | September 2, 2014
Unlike most so-called drive-by attacks on websites, which infect visitors’ computers with malware, a strike on a software provider’s website involved a tool that takes detailed notes about visitors’ machines, Computerworld reports...
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Hackers Created a $30 DIY Version of the EpiPen
Ephrat Livni | Quartz | September 27, 2016
The EpiPen is a potentially life-saving device for those with severe allergies or asthma. The problem is that it costs $600 in the US. For those with or without respiration woes, the EpiPen represents what’s wrong with drug manufacturing nationally, namely high prices and manufacturer monopolies. Mylan, maker of the EpiPen, raised the device’s price 300% in seven years from 2009 to 2016, mostly because it could...
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Hackers May Leak Microsoft Spying Docs, Grant Bill Gates's Wish For 'Intense Debates'
Ms. Smith | NetworkWorld | March 17, 2014
It seemed surprising that no one asked Bill Gates about NSA surveillance when he last did a Reddit Ask Me Anything session last month; but Rolling Stone didn't pass up the opportunity when interviewing Bill Gates.
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Hacking Health Care Records Reaches Epidemic Proportions
Nsikan Akpan | Scientific American | March 29, 2016
In February 2015, Anthem made history when 78.8 million of its customers were hacked. It was the largest health care breach ever, and it opened the floodgates on a landmark year. More than 113 million medical records were compromised last year, according to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) under Health and Human Services. Consider it this way: if each case represented a single individual, one in three Americans would have been a victim...
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Health Care in a Post-Privacy World
By Kim Bellard | March 14, 2017
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