Christopher Mims writes: Smart toilets: who even knew they were a thing? But perhaps it’s time. Aside from water-conservation and heated seats, there’s been little innovation in toilets since the debut of the original crapper. As long as we’re connecting every other thing we own to the internet, why not a toilet that monitors our health by…
Pointer: Healthcare’s most significant data breaches of 2013
HealthcareITSecurity.com takes a look at “some of the largest and most unusual data breaches that happened this year” on their site. Maybe I should do a recap of what I see as the year’s worst healthcare data breaches and see how much our lists overlap. All I need is some time. And coffee. 🙂
Not All Recommended Fraud Safeguards Have Been Implemented in Hospital HER Technology – HHS OIG Report
From the Executive Summary of a newly released report: WHAT WE FOUND Nearly all hospitals with EHR technology had RTI-recommended audit functions in place, but they may not be using them to their full extent. In addition, all hospitals employed a variety of RTI-recommended user authorization and access controls. Nearly all hospitals were using RTI-recommended…
WoW Hacker Group Mastermind Sentenced To Two Years In Chinese Prison
Eric Jou reports: Late last week, in Zhejiang province’s Songyang county court, ten men were sentenced to prison terms of up to two years. These men didn’t commit super heinous crimes, but they did commit a terrible one: they were found guilty of hacking and defrauding over 10,000 World of WarCraft accounts. Read more on Kotaku.com.
Conviction in hacking of Russian president’s site
If you had to guess what sentence someone would get for hacking the Russian president’s web site, what would you guess? The Voice of Russia reports: The Tomsk Sovetsky District Court has found a local resident guilty of hacking the Russian president’s site, the court press service reported on Monday. “In May 2012, the defendant…
Texas to launch nation's first privacy and Security Certification "safe harbor"
Lynn Sessions and Cory J. Fox of Baker Hostetler write: The Texas Health Services Authority (THSA) recently announced its selection of the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) Common Security Framework (CSF), the most widely adopted information privacy and security framework in the U.S. healthcare industry, to form the basis of the Texas Covered Entity Privacy…