The Wheedle on the Needle

As many of our clients know our founder and CEO, James Cosgrove, is also the son of Stephen Cosgrove author of “The Wheedle on The Needle” and many many many other children’s books. If you are looking for a copy, please feel free to contact Stephen Cosgrove at stephen@stephencosgrove.com or his personal web site, www.stephencosgrove.com. If you are one of our clients, let him know.

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UW Medicine Security Breach

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Patients-receive-conflicting-information-in-UW-Medicine-security-breach-233946151.html

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Ted Talks on Malware

Watch the following 15 minute video, very informative and a bit scary James Lyne: Everyday cybercrime — and what you can do about it A couple of take away notes 8 New internet users of internet every second  250,000 new pieces of Malware every day.  30,000 infected web sites every day >80% small business web sites

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CryptoLocker Alert

Just last month, antivirus companies  discovered a new ransomware known as Cryptolocker. This ransomware is particularly nasty because infected users are in danger of losing their personal files forever. Spread through email attachments, this ransomware has been seen targeting companies through phishing attacks. Cryptolocker will encrypt users’ files using asymmetric encryption, which requires both a public and private key. The public key is used to encrypt and verify data, while private key is used for decryption, each the inverse of the other. For more information please see the 2 sites...

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HITECH Breaches..

Curious if offices are actually getting fines for HIPAA violations Take a look

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