InfoSec News Nuggets 05/23/2023

The fax is still king in healthcare — and it’s not going away anytime soon The fax — that 1940s technology that exploded in the 1980s and operates by copying an image and transmitting it through squeaks and squawks over a phone line — is still used by a large majority of healthcare providers, insurance payers, and pharmacies. And it’s simply not going away anytime soon. As recently as 2019, seven in 10 hospitals were…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 04/22/2021

1 - Internal Facebook email reveals intent to frame data scraping as ‘normalized, broad industry issue’ An internal email accidentally leaked by Facebook to a journalist has revealed the firm's intentions to frame a recent data scraping incident as "normalized" and a "broad industry issue." Facebook has recently been at the center of a data scraping controversy. Earlier this month, Hudson Rock researchers revealed that information belonging to roughly 533 million users had been posted online, including phone numbers, Facebook…
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