Posts Tagged with security

by adgrooms on June 27, 2019

Radiohead is a popular rock band from England. Millions of fans around the world have bought their music since their debut in 1985. The band was recently hacked, and an archive of their music, not intended to be released to the public, was stolen. The archive contained ...

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by adgrooms on June 18, 2019

Encouraging and enforcing secure passwords is an ongoing challenge for any organization. In healthcare, patient data is a valuable target. The easiest, cheapest, and lowest risk hack is to guess a password. [It happened to Mark Zuckerberg in ...

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by adgrooms on June 12, 2019

Ransomware is in the news again for a weeks-long ordeal for the city of Baltimore. Healthcare is another favorite target. In cities and health systems the need to access data is vital to ...

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by adgrooms on June 3, 2019

With the digital transformation of healthcare, everyone is using more software systems and apps, each one requiring a secure password. A password is supposed to be long, complex, and never reused. Creating and remembering many passwords that meet those guidelines can be a challenge. Password management software can help generate and store complex passwords and is more secure than other ...

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by adgrooms on May 30, 2019

We have recently looked at the risk of phishing scams in healthcare and how to avoid them. We have seen that the number of patient data breaches has reached one per day in 2018. But why do hackers continue the relentless attacks on healthcare institutions? What are the hackers after? What reward do ...

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