As you probably know, many hospitals, doctors offices and other health care facilities have either already digitized their patients’ medical records or are making plans to do so in the near future.
And if some in the federal government have their way, everyone’s medical records will eventually be accessible to medical personnel via the Internet.
While having your medical history available online would certainly make it easy for a doctor in a far away town to quickly access your records in an emergency, it would also make them vulnerable to hackers and anyone else who would like to get their hands on your sensitive private info for nefarious purposes. [Read more…]
Well, there’s yet another extremely dangerous scam making the rounds on Facebook, and it’s an easy one to fall for. It goes something like this…
Adobe has just released a critical update to their Flash Player to plug four new critical security holes. It appears that the holes will never stop opening up in this software.
Another day, another major hack. This time the victims were folks who shopped at one of the company’s 1,400 brick and mortar retail stores during much of 2014.