Data Hijacker Holds Patient Data Hostage
A critical access hospital in southern Illinois was targeted by holding PHI data hostage. The attacker was an unknown party with access to protected health information. This attacker also threatened to release more data unless a “substantial” ransom payment was made. The 22-bed hospital in Flora, Ill., notified its clinic patients that back on Nov. 2 there […] Continue Reading…
SSLv3 Poodle Security Breach
SSLv3 POODLE Security Vulnerability Breaks SSLv3 Secure Browsing When you access high profile sites and services such as your bank, Twitter or Google you typically access sites using https:// or a feature called SSL (secure sockets layer) but a new security defect could break that open. SSL or TLS (Transport Layer Security) provides encryption to protect […] Continue Reading…
Caution: If You’re Considering Office 365 Read Beyond the Fine Print
Office 365 is working great in Don’s shop, but there are issues you need to be aware of. He shares what he’s found out (so far). As more and more people switch to Microsoft Office 365 Software as a Service, program bugs will obviously present themselves. The original writer of this blog uses Office 365, and […] Continue Reading…
40 Apple iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6 tips and tricks
The Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus arrived with a splash and a huge initial sales success, but since they are such a huge upgrade over the smaller, 4-inch iPhone 5s, there is a ton of new features and little things that you can do to tweak the iOS 8 experience on Apple’s […] Continue Reading…
Shellshock is a new security threat worse than Heartbleed
The Health Information Trust Alliance has issued warnings about Shellshock, a system vulnerability it says could cause much more damage than the infamous Heartbleed bug. The HITRUST Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Coordination Center, known as the C3, announced this past week it has been tracking the remote code execution vulnerability, which it says can […] Continue Reading…