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. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About four months, a security firm named Medsec discovered some flaws in St Jude Medical’s cardiac implantable products. The accepted way to deal with this is to privately let the manufacturer know what you found, let them fix it and then release your research. In this case, Medsec had been told that St. Jude would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why do hackers steal medical and health insurance information and what do they do with it? Why does your personal health information sell for 25 to 50 times what credit card information sells for? The first answer? Your credit card information is typically toast within 30 days of the first use, sometimes sooner. And of […]
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