In a landmark move, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a new proposal to strengthen the HIPAA Security Rule, calling for stringent cybersecurity measures to protect electronic protected health information (ePHI). Why? According to the HHS’ proposal, there has been a “rampant escalation of cyberattacks using hacking and ransomware” in … Read more
It feels like tech workers have caught very few breaks over the past several years, between ongoing mass layoffs, stagnating wages amid inflation, AI supposedly coming for jobs, and unpopular orders to return to office that, for many, threaten to disrupt work-life balance. But in 2024, a potentially critical mass of tech workers seemed to … Read more
Getty Pictures Microsoft has up to date a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to face up to assaults from quantum computer systems. The updates had been made final week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic capabilities in Home windows and Linux. The library, began in 2006, gives … Read more
