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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. For example, imagine a hospital employee accidentally shares a patient’s medical records with someone who shouldn’t have seen them.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

A prime example is the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) cybersecurity frameworks , a comprehensive cyber hygiene roadmap applicable to businesses of all sizes and in all industries The trouble is the NIST guidelines are voluntary. Pre-COVID-19 security regimes aren’t valid anymore. Cyber hygiene isn’t difficult.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

To pick just two recent examples of the latter, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation1 (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act2 (CCPA) both impose sweeping requirements on businesses with the aim of increasing consumers’ privacy and control over how their personal data is used. For example, in John B.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

When we do the weekly supermarket shop online, we should be able to move our shopping list electronically. For example, although there are clear benefits to medical research from giving researchers access to anonymised medical data, it remains a matter of concern to the public, the media and the profession itself.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

Electronic Things. Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

Electronic Things. Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

For example, you’d need several different systems, each running just one program, to accomplish a task. Somebody's trying to say encrypt the whole database or exfiltrate the whole database. I get my exercises online. The first digital systems simply ran software, meaning it ran one program at a time.