Another industry that won't give us that warm
fuzzy feeling we crave.
Health Care
and Cyber Security: Increasing Threats Require Increased Capabilities
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Aug 27, 2015
At the core of the increased risk to healthcare
organizations is the richness and uniqueness of the information that
the health plans, doctors, hospitals and other providers handle.
Apart from typical financial fraud, there is also the possibility of
medical insurance fraud, or, in the case of providers, attacks on
computer-controlled medical devices. As this is the largest part of
the U.S. economy and a safeguard of peoples’ well-being, healthcare
is a matter of national security. Despite such significant
repercussions of a cyber-attack, the healthcare sector lags in terms
of its preparedness for cyber threats. As recent events have made
clear, protecting information is not easy. Hackers will find
opportunities to exploit flaws in the way healthcare organizations
currently fund, manage, enable, organize and implement their
information protection capabilities. In terms of technical
capabilities, the
healthcare industry is behind other industries in protecting its
infrastructure and electronic protected health information
(ePHI) – as commonly seen in the use of outdated clinical
technology, insecure network-enabled medical devices, and an overall
lack of information security management processes…”
How about, “Show us that Best Practices were in
place and functioning and we'll wave all fines.” It should also
help your defense in all those pesky Class Action lawsuits.
Oh, this is an intriguing approach. Alice Marini
reports:
The Korean Communications Commission (KCC) announced, on 21 August 2015, the implementation of a new penalty scheme, which allows companies, that have voluntarily reported a data breach to the KCC, to receive a reduction on the total administrative fine prescribed of up to the 30% (‘the New Reduction Scheme’). The New Reduction Scheme operates in addition to the KCC’s penalty regime, by helping companies to mitigate a fine for a data breach, when they proactively cooperate with the KCC during the investigations.
Read more on DataGuidance.
Update your target list...
US Energy
Secretary: We Should Worry About Hacked Cars
… At the National Clean Energy Summit, former
Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta—now Hillary
Clinton’s campaign chairman—asked Moniz if the prospect of
cyber attacks on the electric grid keeps him awake at night.
“Yes,” Moniz replied, but he suggested the
electric grid was not the most vulnerable system.
… More attention should be paid to other
vulnerabilities, Moniz continued, such as major natural-gas
compressor stations and private vehicles.
“We have to worry about the increasing
intelligence in things like vehicle and traffic management.
… Earlier this year Sen. Ed Markey’s office
released a report
on the vulnerability of private vehicles to cyber attacks, which
found that nearly all new vehicles “include wireless technologies
that could pose vulnerabilities to hacking or privacy intrusions.”
… Moniz called for increased training of cyber
security professionals, an initiative
partially undertaken by the National Nuclear Security Administation.
Another encounter Google never anticipated.
Sounds like the guy on the bicycle was playing with the Google car.
Probably have the same problem with unicycles and Segways.
How
fixed-gear bikes can confuse Google’s self-driving cars
A win is a loss and a loss is a win? I'm so glad
I'm not a lawyer.
Gus Hurwitz has a slightly different take on the
Third Circuit’s opinion in FTC v. Wyndham. On the issue
of notice, he writes, in part:
The court goes on to find that Wyndham had sufficient notice of the requirements of Section 5 under the standard that applies to judicial interpretations of statutes. And it expressly notes that, should the district court decide that the higher standard applies – that is, if the court agrees to apply the general law of data security that the FTC has tried to develop in recent years – the court will need to reevaluate whether the FTC’s rules meet Constitutional muster. That review would be subject to the tougher standard applied to agency interpretations of statutes.
Should this happen – should the FTC convince the district court that its prior cases are relevant – the Third Circuit’s opinion bears ill portents for the Commission.
Read more on TechPolicyDaily.com.
An encounter Google has had before and will
continue to have.
BERLIN — In
private sessions this summer, giant publishers and media companies
from Germany, France and elsewhere have met with European officials
about proposals to regulate Europe’s digital economy. The
discussions have covered a broad range of contentious issues,
according to public disclosures and several people who attended or
were briefed on the meetings. Central to almost all of them has been
limiting the reach of a single American company: Google.
… “The argument is simple enough: Publishers
want money from Google,” said Till Kreutzer, a German
lawyer who has campaigned against these new copyright proposals.
“Many European politicians are open to listening to that type of
proposal.”
Perspective.
Facebook
has a billion users in a single day, says Mark Zuckerberg
For the first time over a billion people used
Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark
Zuckerberg.
The "milestone" was reached on Monday,
when "1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their
friends and family", he said in a
post.
Facebook has nearly 1.5 billion users who log in
at least once a month, but this was the most in a single day.
Useful when teaching software like Excel.
Microsoft has a new Office tool that's really
useful if you regularly take screenshots. Microsoft Snip, available
in beta now, allows Windows users to capture
screenshots and then annotate on them and record audio over the top.
It can turn an ordinary screenshot into a screen tutorial, or just a
neat way to share your thoughts about a document or image over the
web. While Windows has long included its own Snipping Tool,
Microsoft Snip is a lot more powerful.
… Basic captures are automatically copied to
the clipboard, but if you add audio then it's automatically
transformed into an MP4 file that can be embedded on websites or
viewed from a URL hosted on Microsoft's servers (providing you opt to
upload it). Otherwise, all screenshots are stored locally by
default.
… Microsoft Snip is being offered as a free
beta for now, and there's an option within the app to send feedback
straight to Microsoft about its features.
We don't teach cursive writing, perhaps students
no longer need to read either. (Thinking was apparently tossed out
years ago.)
More People
Have a Summer 'Streaming' List Than a Summer Reading List
(Infographic)
Summer used to be synonymous with poring over a
juicy read at the beach, or curling up next to a good book outside on
the porch.
But not anymore. A new survey conducted by New
York-based research firm Miner
& Co. Studio reveals that, while 76 percent of Americans say
they have a summer reading list, 85 percent report to having a summer
“streaming” list -- a catalog of content that they intend to
binge before summer ends.
And the great outdoors has slowly become the venue
of choice for streaming. Sixty-four percent of participants said
that they are consuming video in places where they used to spend time
reading outside, including on porches, decks, backyards, beaches and
lakes.
This could be useful on occasion.
How To
Transcribe A YouTube Video
… We’ve looked at how to download
videos from YouTube before. We’ve dissected all the ways you
can convert
a video file to an MP3. But we’ve never looked at how to
convert a YouTube video to text.
It turns out, it’s surprisingly easy, with a
couple of caveats. Here’s how to do it in the browser, on your
computer, and with the help of someone else.
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