A digital signature and a digital certificate, while both security measures, are different in the ways they are implemented and the background why they are implemented for. The technology industry loves to use acronyms and words that seem to either overlap with other similar words, or that are a slight …
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The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has released a new report to help IT and security officers of healthcare organisations implement IoT devices securely and protect smart hospitals from a variety of threats. Interconnected health care systems Devices, system components and networks are becoming autonomous, ubiquitous …
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Dutch hospitals already reported 304 cases of lost sensitive information. The official report does not provide all the details, because these may be traced to individual patients or hospitals. Since 1 January 2016, the data breach notification obligation has entered into force. This obligation means that organisations (companies as well …
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Cyber criminals are expanding their activities rapidly, from the financial sector into the medical sector, hunting for data of patients. The growing popularity of stolen data sets of individual patients can be explained by the fact that credit card details quickly can be blocked or replaced. Protected health information, which …
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