Current IT Security Events - Loricca Managed Security Services

Has personalization touched healthcare technology yet?

by Loricca,Inc. | May 29, 2015 | Current IT Security Events, Healthcare, Healthcare IT, HIPAA, HIPAA HITECH, IT News You Can Use, IT Security, IT Security Tips, Security Breaches

Open Source Personalization, Not Without Risks Everybody understands the term ‘personalized healthcare’, it’s what we have naturally come to expect in the new age of consumerization, Customer Relationship Management and choice. Equally, everybody (these days)...

How serious is the SSL/TLS FREAK vulnerability?

by Loricca,Inc. | Mar 25, 2015 | Current IT Security Events, Cyber Security, IT Security, IT Security Breach, Security Breach, Security Breaches

Freak vulnerability alerts from the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center are never good news. Discovered and reported this March 2015, the FREAK (Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys CVE-2015-0204) is a weakness...

Is this Breach the Scariest Thing We’ve Seen from Sony in a Long While?

by Loricca,Inc. | Dec 17, 2014 | Business Associate, Current IT Security Events, Cyber Attack, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, IT News You Can Use, Security Breach, Security Tip

News is not joyous for Sony this holiday season. Every day there is a new development, more leaked information, and now outright threats from the “Guardians of Peace” attackers who have taken over Sony’s network and systems. The dramatic developments have been...

The Big Lesson to Learn from Security Breaches of 2014: Vigilance

by Loricca,Inc. | Nov 20, 2014 | Current IT Security Events, Incident Response, IT Security, IT Security Breach, Security Breach

As the weather turns colder (even here in Florida) and we head into the holiday season, it inevitable that we would reflect on the year that is winding down. It may seem early for an “end of the year” or 2014 recap post but, in IT security, the slew of bad news and...

Avoiding the Most Common Compliance Issues to Trigger an OCR Investigation

by Loricca,Inc. | Oct 30, 2014 | Compliance, Compliance Investigation, Current IT Security Events, EPHI, HIPAA, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA HITECH, HIPAA Penalty, PHI

We have seen numerous indications over the last several months that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights, the agency responsible for enforcing HIPAA regulations, plans to take an increasingly aggressive approach to enforcement....

Back to Network Security Basics

by Loricca,Inc. | Sep 4, 2014 | Community Health Systems, Current IT Security Events, Data Breach, Heartbleed, Home Depot, IT Security, JP Morgan, Network Penetration, Network Testing, Network Vulnerability, Network Vulnerability Testing, Security Breach, Target

Last week, I wrote an article addressing the concept of “assumption of breach” and, as if to put a big shining spotlight on that idea, in one short week, we have learned that JP Morgan (along with other unnamed banks) and Home Depot have both been victims of massive...