by Gary Pritts | Sep 4, 2014 | General News, HIPAA
Several celebrities had their privacy compromised this week when nude photos they had uploaded to Apple’s iCloud were stolen by hackers and shared on the Internet. On Tuesday, Apple said that the theft of the photos was due to “very targeted attacks” on the... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Aug 14, 2014 | HIPAA
An August 5th report from Hold Security, a private security firm in Milwaukee, alleged that a Russian gang of hackers stole the personal data of more than half a billion people. Experts at Hold Security estimate that 420,000 web and FTP sites were accessed by the... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 21, 2014 | HIPAA
The U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments for a criminal ring involving individuals working at multiple facilities in Alabama. Other individuals in the fraud ring were former employees of a hospital located on Ft. Benning Army base. The ring allegedly used... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 17, 2014 | HIPAA
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report categorized 63,000 security incidents from 95 countries into 9 categories of causes. For the healthcare organizations surveyed, just 3 of those categories accounted for 73% of the security incidents experience—Theft and... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 11, 2014 | HIPAA
Many healthcare organizations remain unaware that the Heartbleed bug can affect more than just websites and web servers. The bug, discovered separately by Neel Mehta and his team from Google Security in late March and later by Finnish security firm Codenomicon in... Read More