Kevin Johnson

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Former Microsoft Executive Says CEO Ballmer Culls Internal Rivals To Retain Power

Bill Rigby | Reuters | January 21, 2013

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader for the world's largest software company but holds his grip on it by systematically forcing out any rising manager who challenges his authority, claims a former senior executive who has written a book about his time at the company. Read More »

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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Mobile Devices, Apps Open For Attacks

Erin McCann | Healthcare It News | July 30, 2014

In many ways, mobile device security is an oxymoron in its current state. In fact, if you're using an Internet of Things-type device, chances are it has an average of 25 hidden vulnerabilities, according to new research, making it a ripe target for hackers...

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Vanderbilt Opens mHealth App Contest

Erin McCann | Government Health IT | May 3, 2013

Vanderbilt University officials announced Wednesday the kick-off of a new mobile health app challenge intended to transform patient clinical summaries into comprehensible, user-friendly health data. The contest is open to software developers worldwide and promises $20,000 in prize money for the best of the best. Read More »

Virus Nails Hospital, Causes Massive Data Breach

Erin McCann | GovernnmentHealthIT | March 18, 2014

No hospital is too small, evidently, to serve as fodder for hackers. The latest hospital cyber-attack is reported by a small-town rural hospital in Colorado. The hospital discovered it had a computer virus that had collected and encrypted patient data in a hidden file system.

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