"It was a network administrator's worst fear: a rogue program operating silently, poised to deliver operational plans into the hands of an unknown adversary," Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn III writes in Foreign Affairs article.
The only state attorney general in the nation who so far has used his new power under the HITECH Act to sue a healthcare organization for HIPAA privacy and security rule violations is keeping a close eye on breaches of all sizes.
The leak of 75,000 internal military logs on the Afghanistan war is a major IT security breach, but the fact that the breach - or leak - of such magnitude occurred didn't seem to surprise many. And, two recent reports show why.
An audit has determined that 10 to 20 percent of the Department of Veterans Affairs' vendor contracts lack information security clauses, VA CIO Roger Baker says.
Faced with a batch of bad publicity about healthcare information security, the Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an effort to help polish its image.
A California hospital will fire five employees and discipline another because they used social media to post personal discussions about hospital patients.
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