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- Protecting EMRs, Data Privacy and Hospital Interconnections
- Rapidly expanding interconnections are a fact of life as healthcare providers expand access to EMRs and other data by physicians, nurses, transcription services, and radiology interpretation services, and staff members connect via laptops and mobile devices. Security and privacy concerns are growing as well. Touchstone Behavioral Health staff members work...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Privacy, Interconnection, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Security
- Webcasts 2007-11-29
- Providing Security for Sensitive Client Information With a Four-Person IT Staff - And Help From Symantec
- Staff members with Touchstone Behavioral Health meet their young clients at their homes or other remote locations, and their laptops sometimes carry malware by the time they return to the network. Symantec Endpoint Protection secures these endpoints by quarantining any laptop with out-of-date security patches or potentially harmful code. Endpoint...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Symantec Endpoint Protection, Security
- Case studies 2007-10-02
- Security 2.0: Protecting the Endpoints
- With a widening group of users tapping into corporate resources, the need to secure all endpoints cannot be underestimated. Symantec Endpoint Protection includes proactive technologies that automatically analyze application behaviors and network communications to detect and actively block attacks. Security 2.0 has emerged in response to a dramatically changing threat...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Endpoint, Security 2.0, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Identity Theft, Security
- White papers 2007-08-21
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- EU has privacy concerns over Street View
- The EU is not too happy with the upcoming launch of Google Maps' Street View in Europe. The problem: privacy. The AP quotes the EU's top data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx: "I would encourage Google to think about how to do this," Hustinx told...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Protection, Privacy, European Union, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
- Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...
- Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Patent reform dead for 2008
- The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...
- Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says
- And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...
- Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- A stick and personal care for those who can afford it
- Lorne Stitsky has a dream. It's the comfortable life internists enjoyed generations ago. A small number of patients, whom he can know intimately and who will depend on him as families did way back when. You can almost hear Randy Newman's Dayton Ohio 1903 playing in the...
- Tags: Patient, Dr., Lorne Stitsky, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- More on the Vista DVD playback issue
- I thought I'd give you an update on the DVD playback problem that I reported on yesterday. Here's a summary of the problem: DVD playback is corrupted when one of the three screens (in this case a Wacon Cintiq WX12) is used to display the...
- Tags: Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- EMC's Next Generation Backup and Archival Strategy
- We have watched enterprise backup and archive environments continue to rise in both architectural and management complexity. When we look under the covers, it seems companies no longer have a single data protection strategy, but rather multiple point strategies for various functional areas, locations, or processes. We believe this is...
- Tags: EMC Corp., Storage, Backups, Strategy, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2008-05-15
- Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.
- The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their announcement on studies by government scientists. Global warming is reducing Arctic sea ice off...
- Tags: Bear, Global Warming, Bloomberg News, Wetzler, Kivalina, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Windows XP Service Pack 3 adds support for WPA2
- If you're running Windows XP and haven't yet installed Service Pack 3, Microsoft has included a few incentives that might interest networkers. First, XP Service Pack 3 provides support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), the most recent security standard derived from the...
- Tags: Router, Network, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack, Windows XP Service Pack 3, Microsoft Windows XP, Routers & Switches, Networking, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Content Protection madness on Vista
- [UPDATE: For more on this issue, check out this post.] I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you pay for hardware, you should be able to make full use of it. However, DRM and content protection mechanisms are increasingly making this difficult for people. ...
- Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows Vista, Cintiq, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- First, a game of green. Then, fade to black
- It is truly astonishing that I mention the word Apple in a post and I get more talkbacks than pretty much anything I write about. Puh-leeze, get a grip. Anyway, just back from reluctantly leaving my old PowerBook G4 with the kindly (actually, can someone half my age be kindly?)...
- Tags: Brain, Query, Apple Inc., Games, E-mail, Web Site Development, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- McAfee isn't "McAfee Secure" or "Hacker Safe"
- McAfee isn't "McAfee Secure" or "Hacker Safe"McAfee not a security companyI've been saying this for a while, albeit mostly regarding Symantec. This still applies to McAfee, though: An antivirus company, does not a security company make.Though still an unpopular idea, the concept of antivirus does not comply with standard, universal...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., security company, security
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Microsoft plugs Office leaks; Delivers 4 critical patches
- Microsoft on Tuesday delivered four critical patches for vulnerabilities Office and Windows XP. There were six patches delivered. Here's a look by the CVE: CVE-2008-1091: Microsoft patched an object parsing vulnerability in Microsoft Word. Affected software includes Office 2000, 2003 and 2007. Microsoft explains:...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Attacker, Microsoft Office, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Zero Day Initiative, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Spyware Cleaner 2008 (exe)
- Spyware Cleaner can to scan your Memory, Registry, Hard drives, and external storage devices. Effectively remove spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, home page hijackers, and malware threats even dangerous threats. With the built-in Check for Updates feature, you can help ensure your protection is up-to-date. Spyware Cleaner easily can clean your...
- Tags: Malware, RNSafe, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
- Custodia AntiVirus (exe)
- Powerful active protection against viruses, trojans, worms, rootkits, and other forms of malware. Featuring innovative technology to scan, detect, and remove viruses, registry protection, email scan, file shredder, and embedded scan for other programs such as MS Office, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, WinZip, and WinRAR....
- Tags: Antivirus, Canada, Virus, Cyberthreats, Rootkits, Viruses And Worms, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
- AntiVirus Defender (exe)
- AntiVirus Defender offer you complete virus protection. AntiVirus Defender virus detection engine provides protection from new and more complex virus threats that are appearing. AntiVirus Defender automatically protects you from viruses, worms, Trojans and backdoors. AntiVirus Defender will continuously scan through your system in background and prevents virus infection from...
- Tags: Antivirus, Virus, 3GPConvert, AntiVirus Defender Virus Detection Engine, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
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