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Cybersecurity

Although Microsoft is one of the most-attacked companies globally, the company allows 90 percent of its employees to log on to corporate network without a password, according to CNBC.

May 2 is World Password Day — celebrate by strengthening your passwords.

Numerous privacy incidents at hospitals, IT suppliers and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.

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Although the pressure is on to combat cyber-criminals, around 61 percent of information technology security experts have experienced a serious data breach at their employers, according to a McAfee report cited by TechRepublic.

Microsoft alerted users earlier this month of a data breach that allowed a hacker access to emails. The users who were affected seem to have one thing in common: cryptocurrency, according to Motherboard.

Anchorage-based University of Alaska is alerting individuals about a computer data breach that may have affected email accounts, according to the Daily News-Miner.

AltaMed Health Services Corp. has sent letters to 5,500 patients about a security breach that may have impacted their personal health information.

Fines for HIPAA violations in which the affected party had no knowledge of nor culpability in the privacy breach will now be capped at $25,000, a fraction of the previous $1.5 million limit, according to a new notice of enforcement…

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