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When it comes to evaluating COVID treatments, MDs are only human.
Stolen medical information can sell for up to six times as much as PII, and there are reasons for that.
Implanted devices from Medtronic can have their firmware rewritten, DHS warns.
The fax server did it.
IoT devices make our lives easier. Smart home technology, for example, can help users improve energy efficiency by enabling them to turn appliances on and
The "wall of shame" of medical data breaches. All breaches that affect =500 people.
Researchers are finding more and more that online misinformation fuels the spread of diseases such as tooth decay, Ebola, and measles.
Eric Dishman wants your data. As the director of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program, he’s trying to convince 1 million Americans to …
Using a menstruapp can mean telling the app regularly if you went out, drank, smoked, had an orgasm, what your poop looked like, if your skin is clear, how you feel, and if your vaginal discharge has a strong odor or looks like cottage cheese.
Knowing security threats and what steps to take to proactively prevent security incidents is vital if personal healthcare information is to be kept safe.
Thirteen employees were fired in 2017 from the Medical University of South Carolina after administrators determined they had broken federal law by using patient records without permission, spying on patient
We're looking at new technology that tries to determine our physical and mental health by looking at how we use social media and the internet.
Healthcare security experts argue that hospitals must ensure high availability of medical devices and IT systems with practices that resemble preventing and treating disease. Because ransomware is a
In this new report, Niam Yaraghi examines the recent privacy breaches in the health care system. He uncovers underlying factors leading to these incidents, documents lessons learned, and examines how to prevent similar breaches in the future.
a look at decades of technical and institutional change by Nicole Contaxis
Efforts by clinical staff to circumvent password protections are "endemic" in healthcare environments and that most go "unnoticed" by hospital IT staff, according to a new report.
Distrust spreads from unethical behavior. It has real consequences, to many more than the unethical researcher.