In what may be the first of its kind event, the FDA recalled a pacemaker from St Jude, now owned by Abbott Labs. Researchers discovered the flaws prior to Abbott’s acquisition of St. Jude and reported them to both the FDA and St. Jude. Both decided to do nothing about it until the researchers went […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We usually think of Internet of Things (IoT) devices as smart light bulbs or door locks or cameras, but there are some IoT devices that are a little bigger and a lot more expensive. In this case, it is a multi-million dollar Cat Scanner that hospitals and imaging centers use to create diagnostic images. Siemens […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When Dick Cheney was Veep, stories kept popping up that the Secret Service had made sure that his pacemaker was not remotely controllable. Some people weren’t sure that it was a problem – not because they didn’t like Cheney, but because they didn’t think they were hackable. Well now we have a different story. Researchers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FTC recently did an experiment to see how quickly thieves used stolen data after it was posted on the dark web. They created 100 fictitious consumers and gave them credit cards or bitcoin wallets. Each fictitious consumer had a name, email and passwords as well. They posted the data twice – first on April […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Another day, another healthcare ransomware attack. Erie County Medical Center and Terrace View long term care in Buffalo, New York have been dealing with a ransomware attack for about 10 days now. On April 9th, a Sunday, the computers got hit by what they are only calling a virus, but according to someone I talked […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]37 billion dollars. Is that enough reason? As health premiums increase, more people, especially healthy ones, are moving to high deductible health plans (HDHPs). A feature of all HDHPs is the option to create a health savings account (HSA). HSAs are tax advantaged in several ways, so most people who have HDHPs also have HSAs. […]
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