A few weeks ago I was at a meeting for a professional organization I belong to, giving a talk about privacy breach response, and the audience was great; around 40 in attendance, all visibly listening and interested and participating. I love to look and see everyone’s faces as I am talking; seeing if they are confused, in agreement, or otherwise are reacting to the ideas and recommendations I am talking about.
I was around 20 minutes into my talk when someone’s cell phone started ringing…playing a John Phillip Sousa march. LOUDLY. I kept talking, and everyone was still listening…trying to listen…but the darn phone kept playing! People then started looking around…and finally I stopped and said, “Does someone need to get that?” One of the folks then reached down and answered it; and then left the room. Quite an unnecessary interruption.
Posts Tagged ‘instant messaging’
Email is for “Old People”: Do Lack of Laws Make IM and Texting Ripe for Exploiting Children & Teens?
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007My 13-year-old-niece wrote an article for me about social engineering, and I got a chuckle out of her writing, “Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I only use email. I don’t have my own FaceBook site.”
Can you imagine email being old-fashioned?! Gosh, my hand-written letters must be prehistoric!
7 More Reasons Why Sending Cleartext IM and Email Is *NOT* Secure Even If Your Doc Says It Is…Part 2
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007As a continuation of my blog posting from Monday, here are 7 additional reasons to add to the previous 4 for why sending cleartext instant messages (IMs) and email is not secure:
Sending Cleartext IM and Email Is *NOT* Secure Even If Your Doc Says It Is…Part 1
Monday, November 19th, 2007I got some interesting comments and questions, and lots of good direct feedback, about my blog post on sending cleartext patient information last week, “HIPAA: Beware Doctors Who Claim They Don’t Have To Follow Safeguard and Privacy Requirements” so I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss the topic a little more.
Sending Cleartext IM and Email Is *NOT* Secure Even If Your Doc Says It Is…Part 1
Monday, November 19th, 2007I got some interesting comments and questions, and lots of good direct feedback, about my blog post on sending cleartext patient information last week, “HIPAA: Beware Doctors Who Claim They Don’t Have To Follow Safeguard and Privacy Requirements” so I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss the topic a little more.
Preventing Data Leakage Through Email and Instant Messaging
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007Incidents continue to accumulate and hit the daily headlines. Many of them involve the loss of sensitive information through some type of messaging activity. The losses can have devastating impacts to business.
The messaging-related incidents are sometimes technology-based, such as social-engineering tactics through instant messaging (IM) communications, sometimes they pre-meditated malicious activities, and sometimes they are just plain ol’ “OOPS!! What the heck did I just do!!!!???” types of situations.
