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Develop a HIPAA Privacy Policy

Most medical administrators have grappled with the issue of developing a HIPAA-compliant privacy policy. They have either developed a policy themselves or delegated the task to a staff member, possibly a medical group records administrator or hospital privacy official. But some administrators have not yet tackled this challenge for a...

Tags: Administrator, HIPAA Privacy, Organization, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2007-12-01

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Facebook gets serious about app quality

Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

How sick is Steve Jobs?

How sick is Steve Jobs?Not appropriate to ...discuss someone's health in a public blog. Privacy should remain private.how long before M$ goes belly up?with Gate$ gone, M$ is even in a worst position since he too was relying on brainless drones.RE: How sick is Steve Jobs?[i]Jobs has insisted to friends...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Steve Jobs, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws

In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...

Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

(Photos: Tracking Last HOPE hackers)

(Photos: Tracking Last HOPE hackers)Get your badge and stick it in the Microwave first!1. Get your badge and stick it in the Microwave first! Not long enough to melt the badge but just enough to zap the RFID electronics.2. If you require the RFID to work to...

Tags: SECURITY, badge, Tracking Last HOPE, RFID, noise level, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering

E-gold owners plead guilty to money launderingGoodbye privacy?Cash leads to crime, too. Should we enforce credit/debit card payments only? If so, let's ban gold trading altogether!I will be obvious and boring then...[Please excuse my poor "Engrish" and my rushed-up style.]Hi guys.I don't agree with your opinion and thought a very...

Tags: Identity theft, Taxes, Free trade, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, Financial services, bank transaction, e-Gold, tax, financial

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

If you don't like AAPL's "Steve's health is a private matter" statement, then sell

If you don't like AAPL's "Steve's health is a private matter" statement, then sellorder of successionI think people would be less worried if Apple were more open about their order of succession. I think Steve has put the company in the right direction so, if something happened to him, they'd...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Apple Inc., private matter, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

SoSure (msi)

Secure your digital valuables with SoSure. SoSure is an easy-to-use continuous backup solution for private and business users, based on the leading IBM technology. With SoSure, your family photos and important documents will be automatically backed up and secured. SoSure is unique in combining a user friendly design with the...

Tags: SoSure, Backups

Software downloads 2008-07-22

Facebook unveils redesign

Facebook unveils redesignFacebook FaceliftWhile the "Facebook Facelift" might sound appealing, until they disallow applications that must 'have permission to view your profile', nothing much is going to change.It is upsetting is today's 'spam market' of cookies, spybots, and phising people are focusing on minute issues like appearance.RE: Facebook unveils redesignI...

Tags: Facebook, MySpace

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?

Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?It's a matter of infrastructure - and transparencyLarry,Your analysis is partially correct, but there is a second factor. Some cloud providers have taken a "you're better off not knowing" approach to the infrastructure their systems are based on. What server is your VM...

Tags: Manufacturing, cloud computing, Down Time, outage, S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

iCrash: Buggy apps tarnish iPhone 2.0 appeal

iCrash: Buggy apps tarnish iPhone 2.0 appealBut stability is supposed to be iPhone's strong suit?Hmm, guess not! A big "I told you so" to all those who made fun of WM's theoretical lack of stability even though mine have all worked flawlessly.[i]If you don’t have an Apple account you have...

Tags: Sales channel, Digital music, Apple iPhone, iPhone 2.0 appeal, iCrash, Buggy app, iPhone 2.0, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to boot

Qik, a popular streaming mobile video service, has finally opened its public beta program and has released a slew of new features to go along with it. This is great news considering last month tech pundit Robert Scoble declared Qik all but dead in the wake newcomer Kyte. ...

Tags: Public Beta, Robert Scoble, Handset, Video, Integration, Qik, Kyte, Kyte.tv, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices

Mom, EFF fight back over take-down noticesIf Universal wins, America is doomedUniversal absolutely must not win this. It is the thin end of a [i]very[/i] dangerous wedge - will we be allowed to sing along to our ipods in the street, or in family videos? What about humming the tunes...

Tags: EFF fight back, RIAA, member company, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2008-07-20

Spam coming from free email providers increasing

After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Gmail, Free Email Company, Anti-spam, Spammer, E-mail Company, IP, Service, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-18

NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?

NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?Double Pariah!!NebuAd is not only a Pariah but a double Pariah! And evoking the spirit of Galileo won't solve the shameless acts they have been doing to innocent consumers. I hope congress get very tough with them: Privacy Breach: Behavioral Targeting Needs Closer Look (http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=544&doc_id=153592&F_src=flftwo)RE: NebuAd: Galileo...

Tags: NebuAd, Galileo

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?

So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Family Watch Bar (exe)

Family Watch Bar provides following features to users, such as: Predator Mapping - Quick access to the nations largest free national predator search, Amber Alert - Sign up for Amber Alerts in your area, stay informed in your community, Google-Powered Search Box - Search the Web, with Google and Yahoo....

Tags: Google Inc., Security

Software downloads 2008-07-18

Techie's green pet: IDC develops new report card for tech asset recyclers

Does your IT services company make the grade when it comes to retiring and disposing of technology assets in the greenest way possible? Researcher IDC has come up with a new certification and weighting system for IT assess disposal functions that it is calling the Green Recycling...

Tags: Asset, Card, International Data Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Google's second quarter: What to expect

Update: Google results out. Earnings fell short in the quarter and fell into the neutral range on the scorecard below. Google will deliver its second quarter earnings Thursday after market close and analysts are expecting profits of $4.74 a share on $3.87 billion in revenue. Items front...

Tags: Google Inc., Chances, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-17

New hybrid delivery security architecture

Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...

Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing

News items 2008-07-16