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Phishing email leads to Denver area health care breach

February 07, 2012

Hackers may have accessed the personal health data belonging to patients of Denver area-based Metro Community Provider Network, a nonprofit health care provider for low-income individuals and families.
 

Patient data at U of M hospital breached

February 06, 2012

A thief broke into a doctor's car and stole a briefcase containing a flash drive that held personal data on patients of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
 

Indiana University hospital hacked to steal data

February 01, 2012

Malware may have allowed attackers to make off with the personal information of thousands of people connected to Indiana University Health Goshen Hospital.
 

Central Kentucky's largest group practice hit with patient data breach

January 31, 2012

A laptop containing personal information of patients was stolen from the neurology department of Lexington Clinic on the night of Dec. 7, 2011.
 

Keep taking the tablets...

David Harley, ESET senior research fellow • January 25, 2012

Taking your Android's pulse before you give it access to your health records.
 

Health Care Features

TECH Rx: Technology and health care

October 01, 2010

The move to electronic medical records presents challenges, but tech solutions offer help for health care practitioners, reports Greg Masters.
 

Data breach defense: Response ability

July 01, 2009

When a breach occurs, customers expect more than an apology, says Bob Maley, Pennsylvania's CISO. Dan Kaplan reports.
 

HIPAA: Getting in tune

January 15, 2009

The heat has been turned up for those charged with bringing their institutions into HIPAA compliance, reports Greg Masters.
 

IT-GRC: Agiliance

December 03, 2008

And so we reach the end of this year's batch of innovators. But, as we look at this subcategory, we find that it wraps the whole shebang into a neat package, defining what needs to be done to secure the enterprise (and prove it) and why.
 

Policy management: LanDesk (Avocent)

December 03, 2008

All of us old-timers remember LanDesk from its days as part of Intel. It always was a solid suite of products. Now that it is part of Avocent, its promise as a hybrid of network and security policy management is being realized. The notion of managing the desktop and evolving that into security policy management makes a lot of sense.
 
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