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Cybersecurity and Local Governments

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. In the Meadow, we do business with the town offices. Margie is there to collect our water, sewer, and trash payments with a smile on her face. The town collects certain information as part of its standard operating procedure. We have also, unfortunately, become aware of phishing emails. Just last week, Mayor Jerry thought he was receiving an email from his grandson with birthday pic

Cybersecurity and Healthcare

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. Generally, people in the Meadow are healthy. We enjoy the outdoors, hiking, and sitting downtown on the benches watching people walk by. At times, though, our residents may need to go to the clinic for various chronic or acute problems. At times Jerry claims Margie is trying to poison him. When we attend the doctor’s, we are required to provide a bit of private and health informatio

Cybersecurity and HIPPA

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. In the Meadow, occasionally our residents have health issues. When we do, naturally we make the doctor’s appointment. It appears as though a medical business in Florida has had a recent issue with HIPAA. Advanced Care Hospitalists (ACH) was founded in 2005 and is located in Lakeland, FL. The business operates as a physician’s contractor group. They provide internal medicine doctors

Woesnotgone (Woes-not-gone) Meadow

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. Today in the meadow we had a bit of excitement. Aunt Marjie, who really isn’t anyone’s aunt, had a visit to the town’s doctor. Although the doctor only accepts the local insurance, there are the usual patient files. A hospital outside of the Meadow had a little problem with this. Valley Health is the parent company of a number of hospitals, including the Winchester Medical Center an

Woesnotgone (Woes-not-gone) Meadow

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. The temporary cold snap has gone away...for now. With those cold temperatures they made quite a few people think about flying somewhere warm, just not on Cathay Pacific. Cathay Pacific is the Hong Kong based airline. Cathay Pacific also operates as their subsidiary Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd. Announcement The airline discovered the unauthorized access to their system. The attacke

Medical Data is Targeted

Medical Data is such a significant target for the attackers. The data is able to be bundled together or separated to be sold, dependent on the type of data and the potential markets on the dark web. Yet another example of this was reported in May 2018. LifeBridge Health appears to have been targeted and compromised. It appears the compromise of 500k patient records occurred on September 27, 2016. This was detected in March 2018. Thus it took approximately 1.5 years for the bu

AD Vehicles: Constant Vigilance

AD VeVehicles have become integral to virtually all of our life experiences. People require these for clothing shopping, moving residences, grocery shopping, attending baseball games, and nearly every other activity. These have advanced such that the autonomous drive (AD) vehicles are being engineered by more auto manufacturers and the required software and hardware configurations are being implemented by Tier 1 suppliers. As these improve, are tested more, and appear in mass

Woesnotgone (Woes-not-gone) Meadow

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. A portion of the residents are very familiar with one aspect of internet usage-email. They use this mostly for family communications, share pictures, or just bugging one another. One area that has been a problem and continues to be is phishing, and not the kind by Margie’s pond, by the south side of her home. New York Oncology Hematology recently experienced this. Phishing has becom

Cybersecurity at Woesnotgone (Woes-not-gone) Meadow

WoesnotgoneAll is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. It seems as though winter has crept in like the wind. This has limited our activities somewhat as the roads have a not-so-nice layer of ice, which at times can be difficult to see, let alone drive on. Seems as though the city of Muscatine, Iowa had their own event slowing down workflow also. As with most industries, nearly everyone with assets with value is a target. Loca

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