The Confidentiality Coalition and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) have expressed concerns about the potential misuse of patient health information by unregulated third-party applications in a letter to the secretaries of Commerce and Health and Human Services. The groups are also worried that patients may not have sufficient information about third-party apps and the risk of their information not being protected by HIPAA. They have offered recommendations to increase security and protect privacy.

Hackers Deliver XWorm via Malicious Registry Files in a New Stegocampaign Attack
A new variant of Stegocampaign has emerged, utilizing a Windows registry file to include a malicious script in Autorun. By exploiting user actions through phishing