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Personal information of 103,000 doctors from 11 states posted to web site

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2008-03-03 09:19:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Doctors in eleven states The states involved include Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia Number Affected 103,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, work addresses, and national insurance identification numbers Breach Description Heath Net Federal...
 
Tags: personal information, sensitive personal information, information, providers personal information, doctors, health net, health net employees, 103-thousand doctors, social security
 
 
 
 
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Measuring the Wrong Things?

2008-03-24 21:04:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...Doctors' 'Treat the Numbers' Approach Challenged ". The main idea in the story is that doctors have been treating patients and using the results of certain tests as the metrics by which they judge health. They treat a patient with drugs, therapies, etc. to get to the diagnostic numbers they want, but now we're finding out that perhaps the...
 
Tags: security, security comparable, metrics, security metrics, drug, cholesterol drug, cholesterol, lowers cholesterol, workshop held
 
 
 
 
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Cisco Eying Into Indian Hospitals

2007-11-19 06:38:00 by MCSE Boot Camp Courses Delhi India in MCSE Training Courses, MCSE Certification Courses, MCSE Courses Delhi India
 
...doctors and specialists can keep track of their patients on their wireless personal digital assistants (PDA). It will also enable Nurses to keep an eye on instruments connected to patients. The network can also connect the doctors and their patients from remote areas with their reports and samples
 
Tags: cisco, ace cisco systems, solutions cisco, systems, indian hospital chains, specialty, super-specialty segment, patients, medical grade networks
 
 
 
 
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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...doctors addresses, National Health Service numbers, and banking details Some records contained nothing more than a name, and others contained all of the information noted above. The information collected was dependent upon how far a military candidate went in the enlistment process Breach Description A laptop computer was stolen from the...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, extensive personal data, personal data, personal, information held, data protection practices
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...doctors monitor and adjust it without surgery There's only a little bit of hyperbole in the New York Times article. The research is being conducted by the Medical Device Security Center , with researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of...
 
Tags: devices, security, malicious security attack, cardiac, security risks, dangerous cardiac events, risks, icd incapable, icd
 
 
 
 
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Securing Virtual Environments Through Partnerships

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2008-04-13 16:06:19 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...doctors, collective minds and in this case a unity of security vendors we feel is the best approach to getting ready for this venture to the new Virtual World Virtual Environments need to be studied jointly in order to understand the new security risks, performance impacts and how to effectively secure it. Montego Networks plans to do that...
 
Tags: virtual, network, virtual network communication, networks, montego networks plans, virtual datacenter, montego networks, virtual environment, security
 
 
 
 
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Stolen General Internal Medicine laptop exposes nearly 12,000

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2008-05-05 12:17:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...doctors office containing the social security numbers of patients and office staff was stolen recently in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County Reference URL WGAL Channel 8 News Lancaster Intelligencer Journal General Internal Medicine of Lancaster Report Credit General Internal Medicine of Lancaster (PA Response From the online...
 
Tags: internal medicine, office, doctors office, information, personal information, office staff, basic patient information, east hempfield township, physicians alliance office
 
 
 
 
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Securing Virtual Environments Through Partnerships

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2008-04-13 16:06:19 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...doctors, collective minds and in this case a unity of security vendors we feel is the best approach to getting ready for this venture to the new Virtual World Virtual Environments need to be studied jointly in order to understand the new security risks, performance impacts and how to effectively secure it. Montego Networks plans to do that...
 
Tags: virtual, network, virtual network communication, networks, montego networks plans, virtual datacenter, montego networks, virtual environment, security
 
 
 
 
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Docs store unsecured patient data on memory sticks

2008-09-05 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
In one London hospital, 92 of 105 doctors surveyed carried memory sticks and 79 of the memory sticks held confidential patient information, but only five doctors had followed NHS rules and encrypted their data
 
Tags: memory sticks, doctors, data, nhs rules, london hospital
 
 
 
 
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Department of Health broke Data Protection Act

2007-12-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8983334 in Network World on Security