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Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022
How does privacy law come into play when a pandemic hits? Do the rules change? How do business associates and covered entities know when and where they can share PHI related to the pandemic? Let’s discuss so that you know the impact to your organization. HIPAA Privacy Rule and Pandemics The HHS recently released a memo that explains how the HIPAA Privacy Rule balances protection of PHI with protection of…
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Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022
The Global Impact of COVID-19 It’s been nearly two months since China confirmed an outbreak of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Wuhan. With over 93,000 confirmed cases reported globally, including more than 200 in the United States, countries across the globe have started to feel the impact of the virus. Industries like manufacturing, farming, travel, healthcare, finance, banking, retail, and technology have all taken a hit from the global outbreak,…
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Sarah Harvey / June 13, 2023
Robinhood, an investing and trading platform, experienced every startup’s nightmare: service outages at a crucial time, leaving frustrated customers unable to trade. TechCrunch explains, “It’s perhaps the worst-timed bug in the history of the seven-year-old company, because it coincided with one of the biggest single-day gains in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and huge gains on the Nasdaq, as well. In all, markets gained $1.1 trillion in…
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Sarah Harvey / November 14, 2023
In a day and age where mobile apps are heavily relied on for business, social interaction, and everyday activities, we have to ask: is there really a place for mobile apps in our election system? Or, more importantly, do we emphasize the security of mobile apps enough to allow them to play such a critical role in our elections? The Iowa caucus coding errors revealed at the 2020 Iowa caucuses…
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Sarah Harvey / December 15, 2022
On December 17, 2019, Citrix released information about a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-19781. This vulnerability lies in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), formerly known as NetScaler ADC, and Citrix Gateway, formerly known as NetScaler Gateway. Will this the Citrix vulnerability impact your organization? What We Know About CVE-2019-19781 CVE-2019-19781 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the exposed system. Because of where the Citrix vulnerability resides on the…
