Security firm recovers data from drives bought on eBay

Formatting hard drives does not necessarily delete data stored on them, a security firm has warned. Secarma issued the warning to businesses after recovering personal data – including passwords and login information – from erased and formatted hard drives bought...

HIPAA Security Standards Safeguards

HIPAA Security Standards and Physical Safeguards Hard Drive Destruction: Guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the rule titled “Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information,” found at 45 CFR Part...

Digital Media Destruction OIG HHS

The Office of Inspector General, Health and Human Services shreds computer hard drives for secure digital data destruction. Watching over the spending of federal health dollars is the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,...

Make sure contractors adhere to ironclad security practices

Kaiser has shown extraordinary recklessness in this situation Federal and state officials are investigating whether healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente violated patient privacy in its work with an Indio couple who stored nearly 300,000 confidential hospital records for...