The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, the government entity that manages the privacy of health care information that you share with doctors and others, has issued new guidance on ransomware. While technically, it only applies to organizations that they regulate, in reality, almost everything they said applies equally to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IT World Canada ran an article the other day regarding the payment of ransom at the University of Calgary. The piece is almost an editorial as the writer beat the University up for paying the ransom. Here is the story that the article laid out. In June the University was infected with a “significant malware […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This afternoon, Google Apps went down for a few hours. Judging by the activity on the Twitterverse, you would have thought the world had ended. You can check the outage yourself by going to Google’s AppsStatus page on the web (google.com/appsstatus). It appears that Google Docs, Sheets, Drive and other parts of the Google Apps […]
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