Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield revealed that it has been hacked. Excellus did not detect it had been hacked at all. In fact, it was not until they hired Mandiant to do an audit in the wake of the other Blue Cross hacks that they found out that they had been hacked. The data of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]iStan is “the most advanced wireless patient simulator on the market, with internal robotics that mimic human cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurological systems,” according to CAE Healthcare. iStan costs about $100,000 and is regularly used by hospitals to teach medical school students how to perform procedures without murdering people. That’s nice, but here is the interesting part. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cancer Care Group, an Indianapolis based Oncology practice learned a lesson the hard way. They allowed an employee to have an unencrypted laptop and a server in his car, from which both computers were stolen. They discovered that the computers contained protected health information – social security numbers and insurance data for 55,000 patients. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Only at Defcon. There was a session on hacking baby monitors. When my kids were little, a baby monitor would allow me to listen to my baby from at most a hundred feet away. Now baby monitors allow me to see and listen to my baby from anywhere on the planet where I have a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Price Waterhouse surveyed 500 business executives, law enforcement services and government agencies and here are some of the results: 28 percent say that their security leaders make NO presentations to the board ever 26 percent say that their boards receive a single security presentation per year. Neither of these answers warms my heart, but they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are reports in the news that Identity Theft Guard Solutions won the contract to offer identity theft protection for the 21.5 million victims of the second OPM breach. This is 90 days after the breach was disclosed. It is unclear how long it will be before people get letters and have the ability to […]
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