empowerT

Bar to Grab Medicare Incentives for Meaningful Use of EHR Extended

emcquaid — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:36:09 +0000

The deadline for meeting stage 2 standards of meaningful use of EHRs has been delayed until 2014 to encourage more physicians to participate.

FBI reminds you to be wary of online fraud this holiday season

emcquaid — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:03:46 +0000

Scammers use many techniques to fool potential victims...

Latest Infosec Controversy Highlights the Real Issue: We are Getting Hacked.

emcquaid — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:59:32 +0000

And yet the controversy only highlights the real issue: we are getting hacked every day in attacks that span the entire spectrum of sophistication.

How to speed up a PC that has lost it’s pep.

emcquaid — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:01:31 +0000

The actions we take depend on the exact symptoms, but if the machine is usable we usually follow variations of the procedures below….

Do Criminals have your ATM Card number and PIN? Skimming is big business in Dallas and Austin.

emcquaid — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:42:56 +0000

I recently read “Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground”(Google Books Preview, Library, Amazon), a well-written and ...

What version of TLS are your servers using?

emcquaid — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:18:53 +0000

A new hacking tool called BEAST cracks TLS 1.0/ SSL in under 10 minutes. The attack is very specific and ...

Do you know what Phone Phishing (or Vishing) is? Beware of the Debit Card Vishing Scam!

emcquaid — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:36:02 +0000

The technology may be new, but the scams still play upon the same age-old weakness in human nature: our trust.

HIPAA Auditor Involved in Own Data Breach

emcquaid — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:10:32 +0000

Data leaks out of every hole possible. It happens electronically. It happens physically. It happens to firms that understand all ...

International Cybercrime Ring Targets Android

emcquaid — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:20:20 +0000

Who’s writing all these apps anyway? Well, criminals are writing some of them and getting them on the Android Market! ...

Next breach victim: citibank.

emcquaid — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:22:42 +0000

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7580TM20110609?irpc=932