Anonymous today have released further data from the Bank of America which comes in the form of a major update to the main data leak of 400+ emails and a huge list of people they are watching with a partnership with TEKsystems. The most recent release was announced by @AnonymousIRC not to long ago and contains well…
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Who is on TEKsystems Intel Leak
See Original article for more information. NOTES: Emails titled TACTO are some sort of infiltrator or tip off program with pretty much all of them written emails sent into TEKsystems. PasteMon Alert are alerts from pastebin. EWT = Early Warning Team Intro First of all some background history on why anonymous is battling Bank of america and where…
Illegal Marketer of Medicare Information Admits Role in Detroit-area Home Health Care Fraud Scheme
A health care worker who sold Medicare beneficiary information to Detroit-area home health agency operators as part of a $24.7 million home health care fraud conspiracy pleaded guilty this week for his role in the scheme, which sought to profit by billing for home healthcare services that were medically unnecessary and not provided. Clarence Cooper,…
Security shortages exacerbating breaches
Mike Millard reports: The sixth Global Information Security Workforce Study, conducted by (ISC)² shows that a shortage of information security professionals is having an adverse impact on healthcare and other industries, even as vulnerabilities such as mobile devices and social media are on the rise. The (ISC)² study, conducted in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton and Frost…
Hospitals tap drugstores to curb readmissions
Some collaboration or sharing of patient information seems potentially useful, even if it is money motivating the sharing. Julie Bird reports: Hospitals are looking to large drugstore chains, their vast databases and patient-outreach resources to help reduce hospital readmission rates. With medication discrepancies doubling the risk of hospital readmissions, contracting with drugstores to monitor for…
Your noncompliant ways may be coming to an end
Jeff Drummond blogs: OCR to Focus Audits on Entities with Long-Standing Patterns of Non-Compliance. According to BNA (subscription required), OCR will look for organizations with long histories of noncompliance, across all areas of the healthcare industry. Entities that can demonstrate efforts to create and nurture a “culture of compliance” will come out of audits looking good. Entities…