Collaborate Disseminate
When it comes to cyber security, sometimes the jargon can feel overwhelming. Ransomware, encryption, man-in-the-middle attacks… The Vaporstream blog has covered ransomware and encryption in the past, so today I wanted to focus on what a… Continue reading Preventing Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Patient engagement is a critical piece of healthcare. Today, more than 74 percent of healthcare executives have a desire to automate their patient engagement. As is often the case however, when it comes to automating engagement, these executives a… Continue reading Empowering Patients Though Increased Engagement
For more than a decade, the energy and utilities industry has been investing in smarter energy infrastructure in order to enhance energy grid resiliency, reliability and efficiency. Grid modernization has become essential to integrating an increasing n… Continue reading Secure and Compliant Grid Modernization
The California wildfires have been especially devastating this year, with fires reaching unprecedented sizes. Hundreds of thousands of acres have been burned and it may take until September to contain the fiercer fires. When it comes to emer… Continue reading Communicating in Time: Wildfires and Incident Response
It’s critical for ASCs to maintain consistent communication with patients in order to ensure procedures proceed smoothly and that they reschedule appointments when possible, avoiding cancellations—which can be costly to any surgical facility.
The… Continue reading Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Secure Messaging: Keeping it Efficient
Researchers have discovered and analyzed an unusual piece of malware that, among other things, seeks to collect cache and key files from end-to-end encrypted instant messaging service Telegram. The malware’s capabilities Cisco Talos researchers V… Continue reading Telegrab: Russian malware hijacks Telegram sessions
Secure messaging services and other privacy-oriented tools that rely on domain fronting to foil censorship efforts by various countries have been dealt a severe blow in the last month. First Google made changes to its cloud infrastructure that resulted… Continue reading Amazon to kill off censorship-foiling domain fronting option
A group of researchers from KU Leuven, Belgium, have proposed a practical security scheme that would allow secure communications between a widely used implantable neurostimulator – an electrical brain implant used to treat a number of medical iss… Continue reading Researchers propose scheme to secure brain implants
It didn’t take long for judge Yuliya Smolina of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow to rule that the Telegram secure messaging service should be blocked on the whole territory of Russia. She made the decision in less than 20 minutes and expects… Continue reading Court rules to ban access to Telegram in Russia
If you’re a user of SecurEnvoy SecurMail and you haven’t yet implemented the latest patch, do so now – or risk getting your encrypted emails read by attackers. The warning comes from SEC Consult researchers, who discovered a number of… Continue reading Researchers find critical flaws in SecurEnvoy SecurMail, patch now!