MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'computer security'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:29:21 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952751&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fblogscan-uk-unencrypted-laptop-health.html From the blog "Australian Health Information Technology":Who Needs Hackers When There Are Accidents Like This? The PCEHR [Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record - ed.] Won’t Avoid Hacker Attention I Suspect. The following popped up a little while ago. By Dom Nicastro Think the United States has its problems with securing patient health information? We’re not alone. London Health Programmes, a medical research organization based at the NHS North Central London health authority, has reported missing an unencrypted laptop containing information of 8.63 million patients and 18 million hospital visits, operations and procedures, according to today’s issue of The Sun. The data does not include names, “but patients could be identified from postcodes and details such as gender, a... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952751 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:55:00 +0100 4952751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4841391&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F05%2Fanother-blow-to-health-it-idealists.html In a series of Healthcare Renewal posts such as those linked below, I pointed out that healthcare IT information security was largely a pipe dream, and that plans to create a national network of health information, while a seductive idea dating to the beginnings of computer networking, is not a good idea now."Networked EMR's and Healthcare Information Security: Practical When Massive IT Security Breaches Continue?","Networked, Interoperable, Secure National Medical Records a Castle in the Sky?","Operation Aurora And a Widespread Reluctance to Discuss IT Flaws: Is Universal Healthcare IT Really a Good Idea in 2010?","Medical data breach of the week - but your EMR data is secure, trust us, we're IT experts", "Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients",and othersNow you can hear i... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4841391 Wed, 18 May 2011 15:29:00 +0100 4841391 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4605791&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fmedical-data-breach-of-month-department.html I have written frequently about the breaches of electronic information security, such as at my posts:"Networked EMR's and Healthcare Information Security: Practical When Massive IT Security Breaches Continue?""Networked, Interoperable, Secure National Medical Records a Castle in the Sky?""Operation Aurora And a Widespread Reluctance to Discuss IT Flaws: Is Universal Healthcare IT Really a Good Idea in 2010?"Medical data breach of the week - but your EMR data is secure, trust us, we're IT experts and others.This latest medical information breach only affected a mere 2 million people this time.Perhaps we should go for 20 million next time?And then - there were substantial delays in notification (to give identity thieves time to get rich?)Health Net Delays Notification of Data Breach Involvin... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4605791 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:12:00 +0100 4605791 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4517140&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F02%2Fwhy-small-computers-are-garbage-and.html A technical note on computer unreliability, and a series of followup critical questions relative to health IT:I run Windows 7 Professional on one of my computers, a very unspecial 4-5 year old Micro Center machine, the PowerSpec 6001, using conventional components. The machine was upgraded with 2 Gb RAM and an ATI Radeon 9600 series video card, to run the Aero "eye candy."It has run satisfactorily since I installed Windows 7 Professional (32-bit version) on it last year.I am not a computer amateur. [I do, however, admit to being a Radio Amateur - Extra class - ed.] Further, I meticulously keep the machine current with Microsoft security patches, use Symantec anti-virus which I also keep updated, check my disk for errors, and only visit major well-known, nationally prominent websites using ... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4517140 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:31:00 +0100 4517140 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4233135&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F12%2Fannals-of-electronic-information.html At The Hill, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich raises a good point about the leak of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and other private information:"You have a private first class who downloads a quarter million documents, and the system doesn't say, 'Oh, you may be over extended?' I mean, this is a system so stupid that it ought to be a scandal of the first order," Gingrich said.Regardless of which administration(s) are responsible (these systems probably took many years to reach their current form), one wonders if commercial EMR's suffer from the same oversights.-- SS (Source: Health Care Renewal) Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4233135 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:01:00 +0100 4233135 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4183255&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Finsurers-test-data-profiles-to-identify.html Stories like this one today at the WSJ disturb me.“Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients”Wall Street JournalNov. 19, 2010From that story: Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people’s longevity. Insurers have long used blood and urine tests to assess people’s health—a costly process. Today, however, data-gathering companies have such extensive files on most U.S. consumers—online shopping details, catalog purchases, magazine subscriptions, leisure activities and information from social-networking sites—that some insurers are exploring whether data can reveal nearly as much about a person as a lab analysis of their bodily fluids. In one of the biggest tests, the U.S. arm o... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4183255 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:59:00 +0100 4183255 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4097863&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fmedical-data-breach-of-week-but-your.html I have written frequently about the pipe dream of secure national electronic medical records, such as in Febraury 2010 at my post "Networked EMR's and Healthcare Information Security: Practical When Massive IT Security Breaches Continue?", my post "Networked, Interoperable, Secure National Medical Records a Castle in the Sky?", as well as "Operation Aurora And a Widespread Reluctance to Discuss IT Flaws: Is Universal Healthcare IT Really a Good Idea in 2010?" and others.I was also quoted on July 30, 2010, in a Philadelphia Inquirer story about the theft of a laptop computer with data on 21,000 patients from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital here, and also interviewed August 2 by local NPR station WHYY-91FM, where I stated:"There is almost no excuse for unencrypted data to be sitting on ... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4097863 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:51:00 +0100 4097863 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3889062&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fcameron-diaz-the-internets-most-dangerous-celebrity%2F photo: WENN.com Googled any celebrities lately? If you’ve searched Cameron Diaz, you might want to check your computer for viruses. According to McAfee, she is the celebrity most likely to generate malicious sites when you enter her name into a search engine. Coming in just behind Cameron are Julia Roberts, Jessica Biel, Gisele Bündchen, and Brad Pitt. Cyber attackers use celebrities to steer people to sites that host malware. They are also starting to hide malware in Twitter posts in tiny urls, so be on the lookout and make sure your security software is updated. via eWeek Post from: BlissTree Cameron Diaz: The Internet's Most Dangerous Celebrity (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3889062 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:59:14 +0100 3889062 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3287701&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fnetworked-emrs-and-healthcare.html At "Networked, Interoperable, Secure National Medical Records a Castle in the Sky?" I wrote that the holy grail of electronic medical record efforts - the creation of a networked, interoperable, secure national medical records system - may be far more difficult than anyone expected due to vulnerabilities in current, widespread IT networking and OS platforms.Now we hear the situation is even worse than in the articles I cited at that post:Wall Street JournalFeb. 18, 2010Broad New Hacking Attack DetectedGlobal Offensive Snagged Corporate, Personal Data at nearly 2,500 Companies; Operation Is Still RunningHackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amoun... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3287701 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:58:00 +0100 3287701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865811&cid=t_115089_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Fadministrator%2Fis-your-data-safe-5-tips-for-data-security-in-your-dental-practice%25e2%2580%25a6%2F Protecting patient data is a critical part of the modern dental practice – especially in light of HIPAA requirements. How does this translate into daily operations at your practice? Tom Terronez of Medix Dental has put together some tips to make sure you are doing all you can to protect your patient’s data… 1. Are you emailing patient information and digital x-rays to other doctors? Make sure that your office and the receiving office utilize encrypted email services. If you don’t, your data can easily be read on its path from your practice to theirs. HIPAA states that you are responsible for making a reasonable attempt at protecting your data. 2. Do you have a wireless router in your office? If you are using wireless Internet for internal purposes, make sure your router is a curren... dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865811 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:42:53 +0100 2865811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1543569&cid=t_115089_93_f&fid=36200&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.jammedph.com%2F10-ways-to-secure-your-computer-system%2F Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.  As we do these things on a more regular basis, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers.  While some may be looking to phish your personal information and identity for resale, others simply just want to use your computer as a platform from which to attack other unknowing targets.  Below are a few easy, cost-effective steps you can take to make your computer more secure. Always make backups of important information and store in a safe place separate from your computer. Update and patch your operating system, web browser and software frequently.  If you have a Windows operating system, start by going to www.windowsupdate.microsoft... Jammed: Full into Capacity blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1543569 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:33:24 +0100 1543569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1521933&cid=t_115089_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Flarry-emmott%2Femmott-on-computer-security%2F Is it possible to absolutely prevent anyone from ever, ever hacking into your computer? The answer is no. Is it possible to prevent someone from ever, ever breaking into your home or office, stealing your car or for that matter robbing the bank where you have deposited your valuables? Again the answer is no. What is possible is to use basic security measures that make it more difficult for a thief to break in and lower your risk. Another factor is the value or attractiveness to thieves. If you are driving a brand new Ferrari you have more to protect than if you are putting around in a 1985 Yugo. As hard as it is to acknowledge our dental offices are not Ferraris to hackers. That would be a bank or department store. In the hacker world a dental office is a Yugo. Security for your home or ca... dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1521933 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:56:01 +0100 1521933 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=586966&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fmtas-second-security-breach-it-is-all.html The Channel 4 report on the second MTAS security breach is now available on the internet:As I reported yesterday:The sequence of events, with the second security breach, was as follows:NHS BLOG DOCTOR was tipped off about it early that afternoon. At 14.10 on Thursday 26th April**, I published an article entitled “MTAS - would someone tell me this is not true." Within an hour I had proof positive that the breach existed.I telephoned Victoria Macdonald of Channel 4 news and gave her the story.I considered that, journalist scoop though this was, the security breach was appalling, and threatened the confidentially of doctors’ private job applications. I therefore telephoned the Department of Health and was finally put through to Mike Clement, the MTAS project manager. I notified him of the... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=586966 Wed, 02 May 2007 10:56:00 +0100 586966 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=569109&cid=t_115089_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fmtas-debacle-continues.html The Government spokesman was unable to commentIll thought out, rushed, incompetent, uncaring, irresponsible…I could go on as I try to encapsulate the failings of MTAS. But tonight I put the thesaurus away, for tonight MTAS moves into burlesque.Someone left the computer on and forgot to set a password.As a result, as Channel 4 revealed earlier this evening, all the details of final year medical students applying for hospital jobs were accessible by the general public. We are not just talking names and address. We are talking everything.Not only can we see what they wrote in their applications; their addresses; their phone numbers; who their referees are. We can also see if there were white, heterosexual, gay Asian, Christian, Jewish or Hindu, and we can also see if they have got police re... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=569109 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:20:00 +0100 569109