Topgallant Partners

Sutter Medical sued after theft of computer with patient data

topgallant — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:27:22 +0000

Sutter Health had a class action suit filed against them after a computer was stolen containing personally identifiable data of more than 944,000 thousand patients. The suit seeks $1000 per person in damages for all affected. Evidently the data was not encrypted and the suit is based on the failure to secure medical information based on California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act. Source: BusinessInsurance.com

HIPAA Risk Analysis Phased Approach

Jeff Jones — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:55:35 +0000

I will list the steps to perform a HIPAA Risk Analysis, but since I am short on time. I am going to do this in Phases. I will try to do this in the up coming days. So everybody stand-by.

Today is the Marine Corps Birthday. So Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!

Saint Penetration Tester on Ubuntu 11.04 x64

Jeff Jones — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:51:30 +0000

I just finished setting up Saint Penetration Tester on Ubuntu 11.04 x64. Works Great but their a few caveats.

1. I first setup Ubuntu Desktop with 10.04 x64 on a New Toshiba R845-S80 with 4 GB of Memory. Result was that the software didn’t recognize my Ethernet Adapter but did recognize my Wi-Fi Adapter. After about 3 hours of trying to find a solution. I reverted to to Ubuntu 32-bit.

2. Same Issue with Ubuntu 10.04 couldn’t load eth0. GRRRRRRR

3. Loaded Ubuntu Desktop 11.04 x32 worked. Downloaded Saint and it worked great. Caveat- After you download and double clicking on Saint, you have to wait a few seconds for the authentication password. After that you need to wait and don’t click on the install button again or you will totally F-up the install. (I did do this and had to reload Ubuntu again). Instead click on the History Tab in the Installer and make sure that it is running. Also, copy your license via gedit your license and paste and create a file called license.txt. You will get a bunch of errors in the terminal but ignore them.

After which go to your programs tab and look for Saint and Saint Web Daemon. Drag those to your Programs tab on your Sidebar.

Then Voila, setup for Saint Express Updates with the keys that you received. And your ready to rock an roll.

4. Because I loaded the 32-bit, there is a universal limitation that 32-bit OS’s can only handle up to 3 GB of memory. So, finally I reloaded Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit and redid the Step 3 and everything works great.

I was using a VMWare Server, but the performance was pretty sluggish. By dedicating a new Workstation/Server. Performance is really really good. Currently I have 4 GB of Memory (2x 2GB SDRAM), I ordered 2 4GB SDRAM Cards. The result should be really awesome.

Jeff

Security Breaches

Jeff Jones — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:43:45 +0000

Why do security breaches happen? Is it lack of due diligence, theft, hacking or data loss.? How can you prevent this from happening?