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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Medical Device Security Center , with researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Washington. They have two published papers Security and Privacy of Implantable Medical Devices ," Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi...
 
Tags: devices, security, malicious security attack, cardiac, security risks, dangerous cardiac events, risks, icd incapable, icd
 
 
 
 
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Select Medical Corporation charged by the Texas Attorney General

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2008-01-11 16:20:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Medical Corporation Contractor/Consultant/Branch Select Physical Therapy Texas Limited Partnership Victims Patients Number Affected Unknown more than 4,000 pieces of its customers sensitive information Types of Data Names, addresses, treatment details, telephone numbers, credit and debit card information, and Social Security numbers ...
 
Tags: clients personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, sensitive medical information, customers sensitive information, texas attorney, texas, attorney
 
 
 
 
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Highly sensitive medical information found in the road

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2008-01-10 14:11:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...medical details" including HIV, cancer, sexual disease, and hepatitis test results and information on people attending conception and addiction clinics Breach Description On Friday January 4th, 2008 a motorbike bag was discovered in the street near the Kingston Hospital. The bag held hundreds of documents containing sensitive medical...
 
Tags: sensitive medical information, information, kingston hospital, hospital, test results, hepatitis test results, data protection breach, breach, kingston hospital spokeswoman
 
 
 
 
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Centralized, electronic storage of medical records

2008-02-27 10:46:37 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...medical records pilot into perspective. The pilot is described in a Newsday article. Google, the California search engine company, and the Cleveland Clinic - an Ohio medical institution with a reputation for quality care - said last week they will collaborate on a pilot program to store patient records online. The test program will allow 1,5
 
Tags: pilot, pilot program, ohio medical institution, engine company, blog postings, quality care, cleveland clinic, newsday article, test program
 
 
 
 
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Thieves pilfer backup tape holding 2M medical records

2008-04-26 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473b50 in Network World on Security
 
University of Miami officials last week acknowledged that six backup tapes from its medical school that contained more than 2 million medical records was stolen in March from a van that was transporting the data to an off-site facility
 
Tags: million medical records, miami officials, backup tapes, medical school, off-site facility, university, week, data, march
 
 
 
 
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Hospitals reduce cost of electronic medical records

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
Replacing paper medical records with electronic ones can reduce errors, and save lives, but cost and complexity prevents most doctors from upgrading
 
Tags: paper medical records, cost, complexity prevents, reduce errors, save lives, electronic, doctors
 
 
 
 
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Thieves pilfer backup tape holding 2M medical records

2008-04-24 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A van carrying backup tapes holding data on patients at University of Miami medical facilities was stolen from a van transporting them off-site for storage
 
Tags: miami medical facilities, backup tapes, van, university, off-site, data, patients, storage
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-15 18:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...medical data and decide whether or not to offer us a job. The police can mine our data and decide whether or not we're a terrorist risk. If a criminal can get hold of enough of our data, he can open credit cards in our names, siphon money out of our investment accounts, even sell our property. Identity theft is the ultimate proof that control...
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...medical departments and some patient medical record numbers Breach Description 05-01) 17:22 PDT San Francisco -- Information on thousands of UCSF patients was accessible on the Internet for more than three months last year, a possible violation of federal privacy regulations that might have exposed the patients to medical identity theft ...
 
Tags: ucsf, ucsf patient, ucsf patients, patients, patient, sensitive information, information, patient information, ucsf medical center
 
 
 
 
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700,000 records on stolen CCB server

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