As medical records breaches proliferate, most folks in the health IT security community think of encryption as a defensive measure, not a technology to be defended against.
Better think again.
A unit of the Homeland Security Department—created to investigate attacks on critical national infrastructures—is on the cyber trail of a hacker who cracked into the computer server of three northern Illinois surgeons, locking them out of more than 7,000 of their patients' medical records by encrypting them and demanding payment for the decryption key.
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Healthcare providers, if I'm wrong, you can taunt me with this in 2013, but I'm going to predict that in a year's time, without government intervention, patients are going to jackhammer their way into your electronic health-record systems with data from their Apple or Android phones and tablets.
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