Sens. John Kerry and John McCain introdcued legislation that would balance individual privacy rights while allowing businesses to collect consumer information that could be used to market products and services.
Farzad Mostashari, M.D, the new head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, appears to be well-qualified for the role.
Marcus Ranum isn't just a well-regarded information security expert. He's also a customer of the RSA SecurID product, and he's got some strong feelings about the RSA breach and how the industry has responded to it.
Heartland Payment Systems hacker Albert Gonzalez seeks to overturn his conviction and 20-year sentence, a record for a computer breach, maintaining he committed his crimes with the knowledge of his Secret Service handlers.
The Family Planning Council in Philadelphia and its network providers are informing about 70,000 clients of a health information breach stemming from a stolen unencrypted flash drive.
"At the end of the day, we're going to have to spend money on (cybersecurity), real money on this, but we have to make sure that we're spending in a way that makes sense," Sen. Tom Carper says.
Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the new head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has the experience that could help move the office from strategy development to execution on a number of issues, including the privacy and security of health information, some observers say.
U.S. Cyber Challenge will hold a series of competitions aimed primarily at college students as part of its April Cyber Quest series, with winners receiving invitations to attend one of several cyber camps to be offered this summer.
The Epsilon e-mail breach has opened the door for what experts fear could be 'massive spear phishing attacks.' Here are 7 security tips to help organizations protect themselves and their customers.
Joy Pritts of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT says the office intends to develop standards that would give patients the ability to exclude clinicians from accessing certain portions of their electronic health records.
Farzad Mostashari, M.D., is the new head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Two Connecticut state agencies are investigating a health information breach incident at Midstate Medical Center that may have compromised information on 93,500 patients.
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