Medtronic's announcement that it's launching an "in-depth risk/benefit analysis" following an "ethical hack" of one of its insulin pumps is good news. We hope that Medtronic and all other medical device manufacturers launch long-overdue, aggressive efforts to improve medical device safeguards.
The Health Information Trust Alliance is seeking nominations for its annual InfoSec Awards, which recognize groundbreaking work in healthcare information security.
A hacker anywhere in the world could easily track the whereabouts and file-sharing habits of a Skype user and use the information for purposes of stalking, blackmail or fraud.
The disruption of text messaging and Web browsing for BlackBerry customers opens up issues of company transparency and business continuity. How should the company have responded?
A hospital CIO calls for studies of how best to match patients to their records, citing the issue as critical to the success of health information exchanges.
When economists dissected July's 0.1 point drop in overall unemployment, to 9.1 percent, they attributed the decline mostly to fewer people seeking work. But that's not the case for IT security professionals. There are few discouraged workers in the information technology occupation categories these days.
What Operation Shady RAT reminds us is not just how vulnerable our IT systems are, but how interconnected we are as a global society, and the fundamental role information technology plays.
The Department of Veterans Affairs soon will enable clinicians to use more mobile devices to view patient information, taking several steps to help ensure security.
Security expert Kate Borten contends the proposed accounting of disclosures rule's requirement to provide patients with a report listing those who have accessed their records is a good idea.
The fate of pending regulations, an upcoming HIPAA Security Rule compliance toolkit and a crackdown on records snoops were among the most popular news items on HealthcareInfoSecurity in May.
Many have been asking lately if the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights has been effective in carrying out its HIPAA enforcement role. The question is a fair one.
RSA executives haven't been commenting publicly since the security solutions vendor revealed last week it had been victimized by a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at its SecurID two-factor authentication product. But weeks before the hack, I spoke with RSA Chief Technology Officer Bret Hartman about advanced...
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