Despite warnings and concerns over the fact that websites used to manage the nation's healthcare exchange programs are at risk, and none more so than HealthCare.gov, one them is already dealing with the fallout from a data breach. According to reports, Vermont has disclosed a data breach linked to their healthcare domain, after the victim whose records were exposed reported the problem.
Steve Ragan | 25 Nov | Read more
"Privacy is dead -- get over it," has been a mantra of private investigators for years.
Taylor Armerding | 22 Nov | Read more
This was supposed to be the year of the iPad's crowning triumph in education--its adoption by and distribution throughout the nation's second-largest school district, Los Angeles. Events haven't quite turned out as planned.
Joel Mathis | 22 Nov | Read more
The K-12 private education Paideia School in Atlanta now hands out about 550 Apple iPads each year to students for classroom teaching and homework purposes. And while students love them, some parents are now pressing the IT department to restrict use of apps on the devices because they think there's too much game-playing.
Ellen Messmer | 21 Nov | Read more
Virtually all the recent news about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, has been about the "glitch"-filled rollout this past month of its website -- Healthcare.gov.
Taylor Armerding | 14 Nov | Read more
Top IT officials from U.S. President Barack Obama's administration insisted HealthCare.gov is as secure as possible, despite questions raised from inside the government before the flawed website's launch.
Grant Gross | 13 Nov | Read more
In the endless conflict over the protection of PHI -- Protected Health Information -- the good guys appear to be losing more battles, but winning the overall war, at least for the moment.
Taylor Armerding | 08 Nov | Read more
There's a new version of the Payment Card Industry standard for network security -- PCI 3.0 – out today from the group overseeing its publication, the PCI Security Standards Council.
Ellen Messmer | 07 Nov | Read more
The federal institute that sets national standards for how government, private citizens and business guard the privacy of their files and communications is reviewing all of its previous recommendations.
Jeff Larson, ProPublica | 05 Nov | Read more
According to recent reports, HealthCare.gov skipped many security requirements before launching, and was granted a waiver by the Obama administration to launch despite a level of uncertainty and a high-level of security risk.
Steve Ragan | 05 Nov | Read more
What a difference a year makes.
Ellen Messmer | 18 Oct | Read more
It is time to start thinking of your car as another mobile device.
Taylor Armerding | 09 Oct | Read more
Fears that the National Security Agency (NSA) has managed to convince U.S.-based suppliers of software, hardware and services to install backdoors for espionage purposes has created a crisis of confidence around the world.
Ellen Messmer | 09 Oct | Read more
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Army Research Laboratory will join forces with those from a handful of universities in an effort to better automate cybersecurity decisions. The five-year project has attracted $23.2 million in funding from CMU's CyLab, and could be extended to $48.2 million over 10 years.
After the FBI executed an arrest warrant last week on Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind behind the massive online drug marketplace Silk Road, it seized about 26,000 Bitcoins, worth roughly $3.2 million, that were stored in the site's user accounts.
Colin Neagle | 07 Oct | Read more