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HIPAA Privacy Rules and High Tech Services

Health IT Security wrote an article beating up Amazon on it’s HIPAA compliance process.  The article was not favorable and also interesting. The issue that they are talking about was a medic-alert style bracelet that someone bought on Amazon.  After this person bought it, the vendor put a picture of it, with the lady’s name, […]

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Do You Care If Someone Is Reading Your Email?

For some people, they don’t really care.  For other people, it is a complete invasion of privacy. For both groups, it is happening every day. Apps sometimes ask for permission to read your mail.  It could be to get rid of junk mail or clean your mailbox or many other reasons, but in all cases, […]

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DNS Hijacking Malware targets iPhones, Android and Desktops

While most of the general user base has never heard of DNS and of those that have, only a few of those understand how it works, that has not stopped the hackers from very effectively abusing it against everyone. Very simply, DNS maps the www.xyz.com names that people use in their browsers into the IP […]

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Google vs. Banking Bots – The Bots Are Winning

The BankBot trojan is managing to keep Google Engineers on their toes.  The trojan sits, literally, on top of existing banking apps and captures your user name and password. The initial target was Russian banks.  Then it was “improved” to include UK, Austria, Germany and Turkey.  Who knows what the next version will target. The […]

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