Companies commonly utilize Facebook as part of their online social media advertising strategy. Companies should revisit this strategy in light of a recent finding in the Northern California U.S. District Court (In re Hulu...more
On August 18, 2014, Community Health Systems, Inc. (CHS) publicly confirmed, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (CHS filing), that its computer network was attacked between April and June 2014 by hackers...more
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On June 20, 2014, and in the wake of several high profile data breaches, Governor Rick L. Scott signed into law the Florida Information Protection Act of 2014 (FIPA), which will replace Florida's existing data breach...more
As reported in the media, a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library, called the Heartbleed bug, was recently discovered. This vulnerability permits the theft of information, including...more
On March 28, 2014, the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), in conjunction with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), released a Security Risk Assessment tool (SRA tool) to assist...more
On September 19, the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) issued guidance on the effect of the January 25, 2013 Final Rule provision about remuneration related to prescription refill reminders and medication adherence...more