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SMS Trojans that ride along on supposedly benign mobile apps and then send out messages to high-priced numbers have been a problem in some Asian and Eastern European countries for several years now, most notably in Russia and China. But now the attackers have realized that there's a whole big world of users out there to target and have begun going after people in other countries with new strains of SMS malware.

Legal actions provide yet another incentive to safeguard data. In addition to the negative publicity associated with being included on the federal tally of major health information breaches, some organizations are experiencing other impacts that are associated with costly breaches: class action lawsuits.

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Lack of Training Increases Risk of Internal Breach

Ongoing HIPAA compliance training is the vital key to breach prevention, says Terrell Herzig of UAB Medicine. Yet many healthcare organizations are lacking in their efforts, according to results from the Healthcare Information Security Today survey

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