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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
William O. Douglas - Wikiquote
William O. Douglas - Wikiquote: As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
World's Largest Debt Collection Operation Settles FTC Charges, Will Pay $3.2 Million Penalty
World's Largest Debt Collection Operation Settles FTC Charges, Will Pay $3.2 Million Penalty: The world’s largest debt collection operation, Expert Global Solutions and its subsidiaries, has agreed to stop harassing consumers with allegedly illegal debt collection calls and to pay a $3.2 million civil penalty – the largest ever obtained by the Federal Trade Commission against a third-party debt collector.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Former CIA, NSA director sounds off on PRISM, spying tools
Former CIA, NSA director sounds off on PRISM, spying tools: "It's time to call the NSA's mass surveillance programs what they are: criminal.""
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NIST Seeks Private-Sector Input at Cybersecurity Framework Workshop
NIST Seeks Private-Sector Input at Cybersecurity Framework Workshop: More than 700 people attended NIST's first two workshops, in Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, with more than 2,500 people participating online.
3rd Cybersecurity Framework Workshop - July 10-12 2013 San Diego CA
3rd Cybersecurity Framework Workshop - July 10-12 2013 San Diego CA: Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, has directed NIST to work with stakeholders to develop a voluntary framework for reducing cyber risks to critical infrastructure.
NIST meeting poses major test for Obama cybersecurity push
NIST meeting poses major test for Obama cybersecurity push: “This is breaking all new ground,” says one industry source of the NIST process, “and the next meeting may determine whether you can write standards through such a broad collaborative process.”
iptables or host.deny for VPS & fail2ban? - Web Hosting Talk
iptables or host.deny for VPS & fail2ban? - Web Hosting Talk: Hello, I recently got myself into an unmanaged VPS package and I noticed in my log files, countless attempts to ssh into the system. After a bit of searching, fail2ban looked like a good way to ban the brute force attacks automatically.
BYOD to Drive Data to the Cloud | Innovation Insights | Wired.com
BYOD to Drive Data to the Cloud | Innovation Insights | Wired.com: The BYOD trend will push organizations into adopting cloud-based services for mobile device management (MDM), particularly in the SMB market where they lack the IT staff and budget to adequately deal with it.
Malware hits businesses 20 to 60 times an hour, say researchers
Malware hits businesses 20 to 60 times an hour, say researchers: Advanced cyber attacks hit businesses 20 times an hour on average, according to researchers at security firm FireEye.
Number of Companies Buying Cyber Insurance up by One-Third in 2012: Marsh
Number of Companies Buying Cyber Insurance up by One-Third in 2012: Marsh: “As a result, companies are now looking to manage their day-to-day cyber risks in the same way they do more traditional risks—through the purchase of insurance.”
Ann Arbor Research Center for Medical Device Security: FDA Publishes Draft Guidance on Medical Device Cybersecurity
Ann Arbor Research Center for Medical Device Security: FDA Publishes Draft Guidance on Medical Device Cybersecurity: Unlike previous guidance on cybersecurity for specific types of COTS software, this guidance spells out more detail on cybersecurity responsibilities for a medical device manufacturer
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Friday, July 5, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Lost thumb drive leads to compromised patient data - SC Magazine
Lost thumb drive leads to compromised patient data - SC Magazine: "A lost thumb drive containing thousands of patient records went missing from a Nebraska doctor's office"
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Women in Security mentoring scheme launched - SC Magazine UK
Women in Security mentoring scheme launched - SC Magazine UK: The Women in Security mentoring scheme will have three objectives: to enhance technical skills; to help expand professional networks; and ensure newcomers are not put off by jargon and can feel part of a group
3rd Cybersecurity Framework Workshop - July 10-12 2013 San Diego CA
3rd Cybersecurity Framework Workshop - July 10-12 2013 San Diego CA: The third Cybersecurity Framework workshop will be hosted July 10-12, 2013 in San Diego by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC).
Threat matrix: Malware and hacking pose dangers to medical devices | Healthcare IT News
Threat matrix: Malware and hacking pose dangers to medical devices | Healthcare IT News: "We’re starting to attach [medical devices] to electronic health records, and they’re not secure," said Zoph. "We’re not doing it with security in mind."
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Mobile EHR Application - Greenway Medical
Mobile EHR Application - Greenway Medical: "Greenway’s PrimeMOBILE™ delivers complete remote access of ambulatory data housed in our flagship EHR solution, PrimeSUITE®, all for an extremely low monthly cost."
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HFE Gene Variants Affect Iron in the Brain
HFE Gene Variants Affect Iron in the Brain: Alizadeh et al. (102) reported no association of HFE alleles with AD, although they did suggest that H63D homozygotes tended to have earlier age at onset compared with noncarriers.
Increase Seen in Use Of Robotically-Assisted Hysterectomy For Benign Gynecologic Disorders | Digital News Release
Increase Seen in Use Of Robotically-Assisted Hysterectomy For Benign Gynecologic Disorders | Digital News Release: Total costs associated with robotically assisted hysterectomy were $2,189 more per case than for laparoscopic hysterectomy, the researchers write.
Applied Dexterity | Driving Innovation in Surgical Robotics
Applied Dexterity | Driving Innovation in Surgical Robotics: The RAVEN surgical robot is a research instrument designed to support research in advanced techniques in robotic assisted surgery.
Robotic Surgery: Growing Sales, but Growing Concerns
Robotic Surgery: Growing Sales, but Growing Concerns: Since then, da Vinci hospital robot placements and procedures have skyrocketed. Last year alone, installations rose by 21 percent to 2,585 units worldwide at a cost of more than $1.5 million each. And robotic surgical procedures leaped by 25 percent to 450,000.
UCSC | Bionics Lab > Surgical Robotics > Raven
UCSC | Bionics Lab > Surgical Robotics > Raven: Initial teleoperation experiments conducted within the continental US from several remote locations allowed two surgeons, each one controlling a set of two arms, to complete fundamental laparoscopic surgery (FLS) tasks collaboratively while using sampling rate of 1 kHz.
Surgical robots: The kindness of strangers | The Economist
Surgical robots: The kindness of strangers | The Economist: More importantly for academics, it is also the first surgical robot to use open-source software. Its Linux-based operating system allows anyone to modify and improve the original code, creating a way for researchers to experiment and collaborate.
Cyberoam launches Web manager for NetGenie appliances - Security - News & Features - ITP.net
Cyberoam launches Web manager for NetGenie appliances - Security - News & Features - ITP.net: Cyberoam has launched a new NetGenie On-Cloud Management Service (NCMS), which will allow remote administration of its NetGenie SO/HO network security app
Netgenie SOHO
Netgenie SOHO: Netgenie SOHO creates a Wi-Fi zone for you along with the benefits of Stateful Inspection Firewall, VPN, in-built Anti-Virus, Intrusion Prevention System, 3G Ready and Internet Controls over websites and applications – all this in your Wireless Router!
Facebook in more hot water, now over 'shadow dossiers' - Network World
Facebook in more hot water, now over 'shadow dossiers' - Network World
...during the course of an investigation of the flaw by a security company, it was discovered that Facebook keeps "shadow dossiers" on its members. Those dossiers contain information about people not volunteered by them but scraped from third-party sources.
...during the course of an investigation of the flaw by a security company, it was discovered that Facebook keeps "shadow dossiers" on its members. Those dossiers contain information about people not volunteered by them but scraped from third-party sources.
ZeuS Malware Returns, Targets SMBs - Smb - Security - Informationweek
ZeuS Malware Returns, Targets SMBs - Smb - Security - Informationweek: Like phishing and other "old" scams, ZeuS is back because it works -- very well, in some cases. In 2009, for example, hackers lifted $588,000 from a Maine construction company's bank account before the theft was detected.
The Network And The Malware -- Dark Reading
The Network And The Malware -- Dark Reading: The story goes that these devices can detect bad stuff on the perimeter. The sales reps will tell you they've figured out how to stop the APT, make your CIO respect you, and allow you to actually spend a holiday like Memorial Day drinking beer, eating BBQ, and remembering the heroes who defend your homeland -- instead of how you usually spend the holiday, which is trying to figure out how your customer database ended up on Pastebin.
Ebook Best-Sellers | Digital Book World
Ebook Best-Sellers $0.00 to $2.99 Week Ending 5-12-13 | Digital Book World: Rank on main list after forward slash; previous week’s list rank in parentheses.
Think Again: Big Data - By Kate Crawford | Foreign Policy
Think Again: Big Data - By Kate Crawford | Foreign Policy: The promoters of big data would like us to believe that behind the lines of code and vast databases lie objective and universal insights into patterns of human behavior, be it consumer spending, criminal or terrorist acts, healthy habits, or employee productivity.
Virtual Brain Online Knowledge Base - Linux iptables
Virtual Brain Online Knowledge Base - Search Page: While researching the best way to implement the custom rules created by my script I came across the recent option of the match module.
We will always be fighting cyber crime, says Mikko Hypponen- The Inquirer
We will always be fighting cyber crime, says Mikko Hypponen- The Inquirer: INFOSEC@ NO MATTER HOW MUCH we improve internet security we'll always be fighting cyber criminals, F-Secure senior security researcher Mikko Hypponen has declared.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Surgical robots: The kindness of strangers | The Economist
Surgical robots: The kindness of strangers | The Economist: More importantly for academics, it is also the first surgical robot to use open-source software. Its Linux-based operating system allows anyone to modify and improve the original code, creating a way for researchers to experiment and collaborate.
MAUDE Adverse Event Report: INTUITIVE SURGICAL,INC.DA VINCI SI SURGICAL SYSTEMENDOSCOPIC INSTRUMENT CONTROL SYSTEM
MAUDE Adverse Event Report: INTUITIVE SURGICAL,INC.DA VINCI SI SURGICAL SYSTEMENDOSCOPIC INSTRUMENT CONTROL SYSTEM: it was reported that during a da vinci si adrenalectomy, distal pancreatectomy, and splenectomy procedure performed on (b)(6) 2009, the surgeon allegedly injured the patient's aorta. The legal complaint indicated that the injury occurred during dissection and the surgeon made the decision to convert the robotic surgery to open surgical techniques. The legal complaint alleged that during transition, the robot's arm was inappropriately moved, causing a tear in the patient's aorta. The surgeon reportedly repaired the aorta. The legal complaint indicated that post-operatively, the patient experienced renal failure and the family withdrew life support shortly after surgery. No further clinical information was provided.
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