Are Cookies Bad? Not all cookies are created equally. As a self-professed chocolate cookie aficionado, I can personally attest to this. But last week, the Department of Health and Services alerted us that cookies may also be bad for our health … information. OK, they’re obviously NOT talking about the little sugary treats we’ve all …
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Well, this is a little embarrassing… Last week one of our promoted products, password manager LastPass, announced they had suffered a breach through a third-party cloud storage solution. They disclosed an unknown actor gained access to certain customer information, but they didn’t elaborate. They did emphasize that no customer passwords were exposed since those are …
EULA, YOU, and HIPAA What do End User License Agreements and HIPAA have to do with each other? According to recent discoveries, a heck of a lot. It turns out apps like Meta’s Facebook and Messenger, Instagram, Tik Tok, and others, are mining your data and activity on an unprecedented scale. Here’s what we know. …
Your apps are your security enemy. Here’s what we’ve recently discovered. Read More »
HIPAA Changes Ahead In January of 2021, we reported on an amendment to the HITECH act by congress that intended to advance HIPAA compliance and enforcement. The idea was to incentivize Covered Entities to adopt best practices for cybersecurity by reducing the penalty structure for those who did so, and still suffered a breach or were …
How Boston Children’s dodged an attack This past week the FBI released details on a cyberattack against Boston Children’s Hospital in November of last year. Prior to the attack, CISA and others sent alerts out to the healthcare community warning stakeholders of an imminent state-sponsored cyberattack. There were no specifics to the threat given at …
What’s Happening in Our Schools I was reading the FBI feeds recently following the horrific events in Texas last week. As more information comes to light, it’s beginning to look (once again) like the warning signs were there, and here again, was a tragedy that could have been prevented. We aren’t going to weigh in …
Do you prefer security or privacy? You can’t have both. Read More »