Federal regulators have unveiled a draft roadmap for achieving nationwide secure health data exchange built on interoperable electronic health records systems within the next three years. Learn about the privacy and security components.
Leading this week's industry news roundup, IBM announces Identity Mixer, a cloud-based encryption technology designed to protect personal data online, while Proofpoint releases its Enterprise Protection Suite 8.0.
Chinese authorities reportedly want foreign software and hardware vendors that sell to its banking sector to share source code and encryption keys. Western technology firms have reacted with alarm.
As the use of consumer health devices and applications grows, so do privacy and security concerns, says a new Federal Trade Commission report. Learn about the precautions the FTC recommends.
Threat information sharing was among the cybersecurity topics discussed during U.S. President Obama's recent visit to India. Does this signal a new era in Indo-U.S. cyber relations?
HealthcareInfoSecurity announces its third annual list of Influencers to recognize leaders who are playing a significant role in shaping the way healthcare organizations approach information security and privacy.
US-CERT warns that all Linux distributions should be immediately updated to patch "GHOST," a serious security vulnerability. Attackers could exploit the bug to remotely seize control of a system.
Because of employees' increasing demands to use mobile devices at work, NIST's latest special publication provides organizations with a process to implement a mobile app vetting process.
Facebook dismisses reports that a brief Jan. 26 outage was triggered by either U.S. blizzard conditions or the hacking group Lizard Squad. The social network blames the hour-long outage on an internal, technical problem.
A long-delayed Federal Trade Commission administrative trial on the data security practices of medical testing firm LabMD is slated to resume on March 3.
As the East Coast braces for a blizzard, information security experts say organizations in the path of the storm should be preparing to launch their business continuity plans - including making arrangements for those forced to work at home.
After heavy criticism from privacy watchdogs, the Department of Health and Human Services has made a number of fixes to the HealthCare.gov website for Obamacare to scale back the release of consumer data to third-party commercial sites.
The Federal Reserve on Jan. 26 revealed its roadmap for an overhaul of the U.S. payments system, which includes plans for faster settlement and a focus on improving payments security to reduce fraud.
The Malaysia Airlines website was the victim of an apparent DNS settings attack on Jan. 26, for which the hacking group Lizard Squad claimed credit. The hacking group began leaking some travelers' itineraries.
As the number of major health data breaches continues to climb, federal regulators are taking steps to make the process of reporting breaches using online tools more efficient, hoping that will help ease the launching of investigations.
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