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OCR Guidance on Ensuring Equal Access to Emergency...

OCR Guidance on Ensuring Equal Access to Emergency...

Official guidance from the Office for Civil Rights

16 September 2018
As Hurricane Florence makes landfall, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and its federal partners remain in close coordination to help ensure that emergency officials effectively address the needs of at-risk...
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Everything you need to know about the WannaCry / Wcry /...

Everything you need to know about the WannaCry / Wcry /...

13 May 2017
I woke up to a flood of news about ransomware today. By virtue of being down here in Australia, a lot happens in business hours around the world while we're sleeping but conversely, that's given me some time to...
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Ransomware Fact Sheet

Ransomware Fact Sheet

Guidance from the U.S. Department of Human Services

29 July 2016
From the HHS Ransomware Fact Sheet: A recent U.S. Government interagency report indicates that, on average, there have been 4,000 daily ransomware attacks since early 2016 (a 300% increase over the 1,000 daily...
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Everything you wanted to know about SQL injection

Everything you wanted to know about SQL injection

But were afraid to ask...

27 July 2016
From the Troy Hunt article: "The indictment also suggest that the hackers, in most cases, did not employ particularly sophisticated methods to gain initial entry into the corporate networks. The papers show that in...
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Health app developers, what are your questions about HIPAA?

Health app developers, what are your questions about HIPAA?

A resource from the US Office for Civil Rights

7 June 2016
From the OCR website:  We are experiencing an explosion of technology using data about the health of individuals in innovative ways to improve health outcomes. Building privacy and security protections into...
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