Like it or not, keeping your practice safe from hackers and cybercriminals is everyone's job. Working with the US Dept. of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology and their National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, here are some of our efforts...

Mobile devices can provide significant benefits to medical practices.  But they also present some very real security risks. For must of us, mobile security boils down to a few things: Secure your device from the start Make certain to use a strong password. Or at least...

SPE28 - Noontime Session: Can Cyber Criminals Use Medical Devices to Bankrupt Your Practices? Synopsis: Today:  All of your patients charts compromised, 30 computers infected with ransomware, 3 cameras and OCTs that can’t be restored, and 5,000 angry patients lost to...

A massive ransomware attack, reportedly leveraging a hacking tool from the National Security Agency, is spreading worldwide, including major medical centers. US Government officials report as many as 300,000 computers were infected (up from 75,000 computers on Friday)...

Did a tech click on a fake Facebook story?   Was it a doctor that viewed the wrong email? Did the office manager plugged in an infected USB flash drive or was it a cyber criminal hacking into your wifi? For now, it doesn't matter.  Your practice computers have been...

Millions of people all over America will be looking up at the sky to see the eclipse. Unfortunately, far to many of them (perhaps mostly kids) will have permanent eye damage because they viewed the eclipse without taking the proper precautions. We don't want this to...