Right before the holidays, Kroll Advisory Solutions released its predictions and advisory. They identified four unexpected cyber forces to be reckoned with in 2013 and offered some recommendations for addressing them: 1. Vampire Data: Organizations Get Bitten by the Data They Never Knew They Had Data exists in myriad locations and in a multitude of formats…
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Out with the old, in with the new
As 2012 draws to a close, there are a gadzillion things I should be doing. Instead, I’m re-doing some of my blogs and moving them to a more privacy-friendly web hosting service. Hostgator never answered my questions about their privacy policy and their notice to users, so goodbye to them. This site was just moved to its…
Out with the old, in with the new
As 2012 draws to a close, there are a gadzillion things I should be doing. Instead, I’m re-doing some of my blogs and moving them to a more privacy-friendly web hosting service. Hostgator never answered my questions about their privacy policy and their notice to users, so goodbye to them. Within the next few days, DataBreaches.net will…
Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers (and other security problems), researchers say
This will come as absolutely no surprise to regular readers of this blog, but The Washington Post has published the results of an investigation into security in the healthcare sector, and the results are… well, what I’d expect. The article is instructive for the range of problems it covers and some real-world examples. Many of…
Nurses turning to un-authorized smartphones to meet data demands
John Cox reports: A new study finds that more than two-thirds of nurses are using their personal smartphones for clinical communications. Yet 95% of nurses in the sample say hospital IT departments don’t support that use for fear of security risks. The report, “Healthcare without Bounds: Point of Care Computing for Nursing 2012,” by Spyglass Consulting Group, points to the…
Prohibitions on Egg and Sperm Donor Anonymity and the Impact on Surrogacy
Gaia Bernstein writes: Egg and sperm donations are an integral part of the infertility industry. The donors are usually young men and women who donate relying on the promise of anonymity. This is the norm in the United States. But, internationally things are changing. A growing number of countries have prohibited egg and sperm donor anonymity….