These days, it’s not uncommon to wake up in the morning and read headlines like: 300 million user accounts breached after a cyber-attack, Hackers gained access to millions of social security numbers, 500 million personal records were stolen from XYZ hotel servers. An ordinary citizen can assume that, a) he/she [...]
Time To ReThink Backup Imagine if life had a rewind button. Make a mistake? Just hit rewind and everything is back to normal. While the chances of any of us experiencing such thing outside of Hollywood movies is ZERO, the ability to use the rewind button in our digital life [...]
Your Worst Nightmare: Fileless Malware Attack "By now, everyone pretty much knows what malware is and how it works: Victims receive an email telling them that if they just open the attached PDF, their entire life will morph into heaven on earth. Or they get an email telling them that [...]
If it seems like every day there is news of a malicious Android app being removed from the Google Play Store, your assumption is actually wrong. It’s closer to 2,000 apps per day. Hundreds of malicious apps are showing up on the Google Play Store, disguised as legitimate applications. These [...]
What is Cryptojacking? Cryptocurrency is fueling a new kind of cyber attack: cryptojacking. Cryptojacking is the secret use of your computing device to mine cryptocurrency. According to Symantec, Cryptojacking attcks exploded by 8500% in 2017 with Symantec logging 1.7 million in December alone. With only a couple lines of code, [...]
SamSam Ransomware Attack on the City of Atlanta's Government Systems City officials in Atlanta, Georgia are still trying to recover 10 days after a ransomware attack on municipal computer systems hit at least five out of 13 departments, knocking out some city services and forcing others to revert to paper [...]
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Your business’s critical data is always at risk. What kind of risks? How about natural disasters, human errors, hardware failures, and malicious attacks… for starters?! As an informed business owner, you take all the precautionary measures to prevent disasters from happening by keeping your [...]
Grow your medical practice, pain free! "Growing pain is an unavoidable part of growth", we're all told so. It's easy to simply believe this old saying and suffer through growth stage. It's a bit hard, however, to pause and think if there’s anything that you could do to ease [...]
HIPAA Enforcement - Breaches and Random Audits Odds of having a HIPAA audit by OCR (Office for Civil Rights) in 2014 or 2015: The good news is OCR announced in February that they will be conducting only 1200 HIPAA audits in 2014 which is really nothing when there are 700,000 [...]
3 ways to get your HIPAA Security Risk Assessment (Soft Audit) done What are the latest buzz words in the healthcare industry? You guessed it, HIPAA Omnibus rules, HIPAA penalties, and of course HIPAA audits. Minimum fine increasing from $10,000.00 to $50,000.00 per violation!!! Is that for REAL? Unfortunately it [...]