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Want To Protect Your EHR From Hackers? Secure Those Mobile Devices
Hackers used malware to penetrate Community Health Systems' firewall, and once inside, they made off with some 4.5 million medical records — a staggering but not surprising number to cyber security professionals. While the uninformed may ask how such a thing could happen, the probable cause is user error...
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We’ve Learned The Wrong Lessons From Aaron Swartz
Over at the (highly recommended) Popehat blog, Ken White reviews the new documentary about the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz and in doing so waxes eloquently on privilege, justice and sketpicism. Read More »
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What Happened With The HealthCare.Gov Security Breach
Hackers breached the HealthCare.gov system in July, according to officials at the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security. Federal officials had no evidence of information being compromised, and it's unclear if HealthCare.gov was specifically targeted for the trove of personal and financial information on Americans that it contains...
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What Scares Me About Healthcare & Electric Power Security
...As a security guy, what industries scare you most?” I get that question more frequently than you might imagine and my answer is always the same -- the healthcare and electrical power industries...
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White House Gears Up For Second 'Hackathon'
The White House is looking for hackers, tech experts and developers to participate in its second Hackathon on June 1. The goal is to produce "full, production-ready applications and visualization tools" that will be used on the We the People petitioning system under an open-source license. Read More »
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Why Healthcare Data Security, Compliance Issues Go Untreated
Secure managed file transfer solutions can be beneficial to covered entities as they work to overcome healthcare data security and compliance issues. If there ever was a pulse of healthcare operations, it’s data. From patient enrollment forms, electronic health records, and health insurance information, the amount of electronic data flowing through the medical community increases every day. With that, healthcare data security must also be a top priority...
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Why Should Hackers Have Easier Access to EHRs than Patients?
In a Jan. 2 New York Times opinion piece, Eric Topol, MD, professor at the Scripps Research Institute, and Kathryn Haun, a federal prosecutor who teaches a course on cybercrime at Stanford Law, take aim at what they call "quite a paradox": the fact that most patients still can't readily access their own health data, even as there's "an epidemic of cybercriminals and thieves hacking and stealing this most personal information"...
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Why Sony Is Threatening To Sue Twitter — And Why It Would Probably Never Win
Sony Pictures Entertainment's lawyer has suggested that Twitter is violating state and federal laws by letting one of its users tweet data stolen by North Korean hackers...
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Why The Smart Grid Might Be A Dumb Idea
Foreign hackers don't just pose a threat to classified material, corporate secrets, and individual privacy. Security experts say the greatest cyberthreat to the United States is the fact that the Chinese and Russian governments—and possibly other players—have succeeded in hacking into the nation's electric grid, giving them the ability, if they wish, to bring the U.S. economy to a screeching halt with the click of a mouse. Read More »
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Why You Must Secure Your Website with TLS
Security isn’t an option on today’s websites. It’s a necessity. Google confers on sites that use HTTPS a higher search ranking. And who doesn’t want a higher PageRank? But, wait there’s even more reason to lock down your site. Google will soon start marking websites that don’t use HTTPS first as insecure, then as broken. You so don’t want to go there...
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Why You’ll Want A Do-It-Yourself, NSA-Proof, Open-Source Laptop (Interview)
Andrew “Bunnie” Huang lists a bunch of reasons why you’ll want his open-source laptop, the Novena. You can modify it yourself so that its battery will last however long you want it to.
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