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 I happened to be doing some digging today about PCI… More specifically, I was looking around in desperation for some place where I could find the QSA QA Scoring Matrix since the council doesn’t seem to have it anywhere for distribution (don’t ask me… I’ve asked if it’s confidential, and they’ve said “no” but that they don’t distribute it… I think it’s a support and upkeep thing).
Anyway, I wound up finding myself (along with a link to the matrix… thanks for that) over at the new “PCIFUN” blog. Once I was done laughing out loud at the banner image, I started reading through the content… Continue reading: Bullish on PCIFUN…
 It’s Halloween – or, as we who are fans of cheesy sci-fi like to call it, “the high holidays”. What other time of year can you watch a movie like “The Exorcist” on broadcast TV and know that – if you miss it – it’ll come around again? I watched it last night (along with “The Village”) and let me tell you it scares the hell out of me (pun intended) every time. Now, one could probably make the argument that casting Max von Sydow gave it a tremendous advantage in making it creepy – and I’d tend to agree with that. But it isn’t all… Continue reading: From Archives: GIANT ANTS! (and security emergence)
 Back in the day, we all got whipped into a frenzy when Orson Welles read the novel “The War of the Worlds” from the CBS 20th floor studios on Madison Avenue. People were so frightened – they were so convinced that aliens were really on the march – that they took extreme actions to keep themselves from being victims of the upcoming martian attack: people left their homes, hallucinated poison gas or lights from death rays, broke out the ordinance, etc. In short, people took measures way out of proportion to what was really going on – had they but relaxed and waited for the real threat to materialize, they would have… Continue reading: From Archives: Panic like it’s 1938
 So, remember all the hubbub about WoW Glider – the automated “botting” tool that automates the playing of World of Warcraft?
If you missed the story, it went like this: Blizzard (the folks who make the highly-popular World of Warcraft) sued Glider for circumventing “Warden” – their on-board protection mechanism designed to keep people from doing stuff like building botting software to violate their terms of service. Anyway, Glider has been unable to continue selling their software for the purposes of playing WoW since 2007, as the case makes its way slowly through the appeals process.
The other day, a federal appeals panel upheld the decision… Continue reading: From Archives: WoW Glider decision in; DMCA holds the day
 Ah yes… the creepy robotic doctor. Personally, if I saw this standing over me when I woke up from anesthesia, I don’t know what I’d do. But hey, if you’re remote, better to have the right doctor (or a doctor at all) rather than not amirite?
Anyway, random images aside, let’s get back to the discussion we started last week in regards to the Meaningful Use final rule. We talked a bit about how the rule impacts providers from a security standpoint – by underscoring HIPAA, requiring risk analysis (moreso than it’s already required that is), and so forth.
But today we turn to the From Archives: Meaningful Use: Unpacking the security impact… Part 2
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I happened to be doing some digging today about PCI… More specifically, I was looking around in desperation for some place where I could find the QSA QA Scoring Matrix since the council doesn’t seem to have it anywhere for distribution (don’t ask me… I’ve asked if it’s confidential, and they’ve said “no” but that they don’t distribute it… I think it’s a support and upkeep thing).
