Shock therapy for medical device malware
Israel has over 700 medical device vendors. Sometimes it seems like half of them are attaching to the cloud and the other are developing mobile apps for all kinds of crazy, innovative applications like Healthy.io ( Visual Input Turned Into Powerful Medical Insight – translation: an app that lets you do urine analysis using your smart phone). […]
The death of the anti-virus
Does anti-virus really protect your data? Additional security controls do not necessarily reduce risk. Installing more security products is never a free lunch and tends to increase the total system risk and cost of ownership, as a result of the interaction between the elements. We use the quantitative threat analysis tool – PTA that enables […]
It’s friends and family breaching patient privacy – not Estonian hackers.
A 2011 HIPAA patient privacy violation in Canada, where an imaging technician accessed the medical records of her ex-husband’s girlfriend is illustrative of unauthorized disclosure of patient information by authorized people. Data leakage of ePHI (electronic protected health information) in hospitals is rampant simply because a) there is a lot of it floating around and […]
How to share information securely in online support groups
Pathcare is a HIPAA-compliant service for sharing and private messaging with support group members and support group leaders and faciliators. Inside the Pathcare private social network for healthcare– you don’t have to worry about your personal or protected health information being disclosed. But sometimes – you have to get off the private social network for healthcare and send a doctor some information by email. […]
How to protect your personal information from medical data theft
Private, personal information can be bought and sold on the black market for as little as fifty cents to a dollar, according to a report from Fox Business. But personal medical information can go for much higher prices, creating a market for criminals looking to defraud insurance companies of exorbitant sums of money. Overall, about $40 […]
A new agenda for Israeli education.
הצעה לסדר יום אחר בבית הספר בישראל הזמן – עוד מעט ראש השנה של איזה שנה עברית ששמה לא זכורה למרביתנו. המקום – אי-שם במדינת היהודיים. לפני איזה תשעה חודשים בשבת בבוקר אני קורא ראיון עם שי פירון, (זה היה ראיון עם שר החינוך של ילדינו בעתון ישראל השבוע ב 6.12.13. ) אמרי מתק שפתיים פופוליסטיים כגון: […]
Mobile security: Risks of 2014 and beyond
Mobile security: Risks of 2014 and beyond These days the vast majority of us own mobile phones with some of us owning more than one, not to mention all of the PCs, laptops, tablets and watches that keep us connected to the wide world on a daily basis; we live our lives online, we chat online, meet new […]
Why Google is a bad idea for security and compliance
Dear consultant, I worry because so many of the best practices documents I read say that we need to store data in the cloud in Canada if we do business in Canada. See page 19 here – Health privacy in Canada Sincerely – consumer healthcare product manager Dear consumer healthcare product manager – First of all. […]
Picking Your Way Through the Mime Field
Picking Your Way Through the Mime Field We’re a professional software security consultancy and experienced software developers. Almost 10 years, one of our partners proposed that we develop a utility to encrypt Microsoft Outlook email messages. A prototype was developed – but an interesting thing happened when we started talking to potential beta customers […]
Kick start your European privacy compliance
The CNIL’s Sanctions Committee issues a 150 000 € monetary penalty to GOOGLE Inc. On 3 January 2014, the CNIL’s Sanctions Committee issued a 150 000 € monetary penalty to GOOGLE Inc. upon considering that the privacy policy implemented since 1 March 2012 does not comply with the French Data Protection Act. It ordered the company […]
