You certainly don’t want your practice name to precede that headline in your local news paper. __________Kept Clients in Dark No two ways about it that is BAD. Yet we have major players screwing up seemingly straight forward issues. Sony with the (repeated) PSP hacks Weinergate – need I say more? Now we have Citibank [...]
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Continue ReadingThere is a common (wrong) belief out there that when something is password protected, it is therefore encrypted. This is totally wrong. The recent “loss” of a laptop by BP that contained the personal data of 13,000 people brought this misconception back to light. Briefly: this lost BP laptop was password protected, but not encrypted. [...]
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Continue Reading2010 was a banner year for HIPAA breaches. The CMS started keeping track on their website. This is an interesting way to gather some data. First, realize that only breaches greater than 500 get reported to the CMS. Second, realize there are some (big) companies that are able to delay reporting through some legal wrangling. [...]
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Continue ReadingThis is horrendous. 1.7 million people in NYC have now had their data stolen. ========= How did this happen? ========= The hospital makes backup tapes of its computers then has the shipped off site. On the surface this seems smart: Backup computers – SMART Store backup off site – SMART Transfer backup data in non-secure [...]
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Continue ReadingWe got a random call today asking if we could fix a broken thumb drive. “What exactly do you mean?” I asked “I had my thumb drive in my laptop and then bumped it and it broke off.” I thought she just wanted what remained in her laptop USB slot removed, which would have been [...]
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