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Los Alamos, Sandia Labs Prepare To Shut Down Amid Budget Impasse
New Mexico's two national laboratories are preparing to freeze their nonessential activities in less than two weeks in the event the federal government shutdown is still in place. Read More »
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Mandatory Data Retention Defeated In Australia, For Now
For the last few years, Australia’s security agencies have been pushing for the mandatory retention of the communications data of every citizen. [...] Read More »
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ManTech Awarded $20.5 Million To Support AHLTA For The DoD
The TriCare Management Activity (TMA) Contract Operations Division (COD) has awarded Evolvent Technologies...a contract to provide new development and sustainment support for the AHLTA-Theater application to include code optimization, database conversion, capability and new feature additions, mobile computing enhancements, and code upgrades. Read More »
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Massive Hacker Strike Against US Government And Banks Turned Out To Be A Dud
Yessterday was May 7, the day that Anonymous and various explicitly anti-USA and anti-Israel hacking groups promised to take down the websites of the Pentagon, White House, FBI, Bank of America, Chase bank, and all the other usual symbols of oppression. Except the attacks appeared to be a complete failure... Read More »
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Mavericks: The End Of Macs In The Enterprise?
Macs have never been that popular in business. But if Apple is indeed no longer supporting security updates for older Mac OS X versions, Macs won't have any place left in the enterprise office. Read More »
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Medical Devices Reportedly Infected in Ransomware Attack
The recent WannaCry ransomware attack that infiltrated more than 150 countries and forced some European healthcare organizations to suspend certain services reportedly infected certain medical devices as well. HITRUST explained in an email update that its investigations found that MedRad (Bayer), Siemens, and other unnamed medical devices were infected. Furthermore, Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) “were identified within the HITRUST Enhanced IOC program well in advance of last Friday’s attacks,” the organization stated...
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Message Security 'Unconditionally Guaranteed' After Quantum Cryptography Breakthrough
Demonstrating a feat that was until recently thought to be impossible, researchers in Geneva, Singapore, Cambridge and Waterloo, Ontario have “unconditionally guaranteed” the security and sanctity of a message transmitted between two points on earth. [...] Read More »
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Microsoft Eyes Hybrid Open Source Approach to Public Sector Work
Microsoft is increasingly looking at a hybrid approach that takes advantage of both proprietary enterprise IT and open source technologies for public sector projects to better meet the needs of customers in a multi-platform technology environment. Michael Wignall, national technology officer at Microsoft UK, said that despite being a company long associated with proprietary software and technology changing user needs had facilitated a switch towards providing solutions that offer at least some open source components in the area of Android devices and other platforms...
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Military Health System Study Analyzes Privacy Challenges
Considering the privacy issues with the Veterans Affairs (VA) recently, military health data privacy has been a hot-button issue in the healthcare sector lately. It seems as though the Military Health System concurs with the notion that a more formalized privacy procedures need to be put in place. Read More »
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Mobile Devices, Cloud Computing: What Healthcare CIOs Fear Most
Although mobile apps that share files through the cloud are gaining in popularity in the consumer market, these apps can be unsafe in a clinical setting according to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute. Read More »
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Mobile Health: What Should Be Regulated And What Not?
With the mHealth industry anxiously awaiting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's final draft of guidelines for mobile medical apps (expected by this fall), the talk at that particular panel discussion focused on what should be regulated and what shouldn't. Bakul Patel, a policy adviser for the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, pointed out that the market is flooded with apps – many of them harmless, but some of them potentially dangerous and in need of regulation.
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Mobile, Cloud-Based Security Top Concerns for Government Healthcare Organizations
The flip side of those numbers, however, show 42 percent to be anywhere from "somewhat compliant" to not compliant with security requirements. Thirty-five percent don't have a risk management plan, or are only just now developing or updating those plans, according to the survey.
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Mount Sinai Researchers Publish Results of First-of-Its-Kind iPhone Asthma Study
Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai today published results from a pioneering study of asthma patients in the U.S. conducted entirely via iPhone using the Apple ResearchKit framework and the Asthma Health app developed at Mount Sinai with collaborating organizations. The results demonstrated that this approach was successful for large-scale participant enrollment across the country, secure bi-directional data exchange between study investigators and app users, and collection of other useful information such as geolocation, air quality, and device data. The publication appears today in Nature Biotechnology...
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Mozilla CTO Eich: If Your Browser Isn't Open Source (Ahem, Ahem, IE, Chrome, Safari), DON'T TRUST IT
Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich has cautioned netizens not to blindly trust software vendors, arguing that only open-source software can be assured to be free from government-mandated surveillance code. Read More »
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Mozilla Launches Accounts, An Improved Sync Feature, And A customizable UI To Firefox Aurora
Mozilla has announced several new features today designed to continue the Firefox browsing experience to any device you use. The company has announced that Accounts will be coming to the browser, along with an improved Sync feature and the ability to customize the user interface. All of these things are available to test now in Firefox Aurora. Read More »
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