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February 27, 2019 • By Erik Kangas

Master Password Encryption in FireFox and Thunderbird

If you are allowing Mozilla FireFox or Thunderbird to remember passwords to web sites and/or email accounts in their Password Manager tool, you should know that these passwords are all stored in a plain text file (base64 encoded) on your computer’s disk drive.  This file is accessible to...
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secure communications
February 26, 2019 • By Erik Kangas

Email, Calls, Messaging Apps & More: How Can You Secure It All?

In a forgotten time, if an organization wanted to secure their communications, all that they had to worry about was their conversations, postage and landlines. If a business was on the cutting edge of technology, it might use a fax machine as well. In 2019, things are a lot more complicated. To...
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HIPAA Security Rules
January 10, 2019 • By Erik Kangas

What You Need To Know About the HIPAA Security Rule

In this day and age of rampant cybercrime, protecting a patient’s electronic health information is of the utmost importance. But, how do you know if the protections are adequate? Well, that’s where the HIPAA Security Rule comes in. What is the difference between the privacy and security of...
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HIPAA Penetration Testing
December 4, 2018 • By Erik Kangas

Penetration Testing for HIPAA Compliance

Back in the day, the most important concern for a healthcare organization was to provide the best quality of life for its patients and to promote health awareness. However, in this day and age, healthcare organizations also need to worry about protecting patient information.  Some of this is identifiable and sensitive — PHI or Protected...
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