Posts Tagged ‘Britney Spears’

Twitter Accounts Hacked; Including Barack Obama’s and Britney Spear’s

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Yesterday Twitter reported here and here that several (33 to be exact) Twitter accounts were hacked into. This is in addition to the current, but separate, Twitter phishing…otherwise known as “twishing“…exploit that is simulatenously going on.

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HIPAA *HAS* Impacted Healthcare Providers…Despite Lack Of Enforcement

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I have written many times about how the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has severely weakened the planned privacy and security goals of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to require healthcare covered entities (CEs) to implement strong safeguards for the protected health information (PHI) with which they’ve been entrusted. And I still believe that.
However, after reading a another report today I realized something…

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