November 14, 2016
Data breaches involving the personal information of thousands of people barely rates a mention in data security journals. Even those involving hundreds of thousands are seemingly ubiquitous, though Read the rest of this entry »
The Health sector is a perfect storm of a poor privacy culture, high staff turnover, inadequate training for professionals resistant to perceived outside interference, ineffective regulation and highly sensitive personal information of patients. It is little wonder that data breaches and privacy invasive practices in the health sectory are chronic problems. On 12 November two Dutch Hospitals reportedly stopped using a Belgium laboratory for pre natal testing when they found it was using the personal information for commercial marketing. A California health plan had a data breach in October while in Florida Read the rest of this entry »
November 13, 2016
Ransomware is a chronic problem, particularly in the health sector which is reliant on very sensitive records, including those of patients, and in a work environment which has a high turnover of staff and generally a poor privacy culture. Ransomware is almost invariably Read the rest of this entry »