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Is Skype HIPAA-compliant?, Part III

So, in my post last week , I described why I don’t think that the protocol used by Skype (assuming that it is the one they claim to be using on their website) seems fairly secure to me–it’s the same protocol used by banks and is approved by the government for the transmission of top [...]

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Is Skype HIPAA-compliant?, Part II

I got a couple of comments a month ago regarding Skype security and in response to my previous post “Is Skype HIPAA-compliant?“  Marlene Maheu at the TeleMental Health Institute’s Center for Online Counseling and Psychotherapy  has a blog post on Telehealth.net in which she voices some concerns about Skype security and in which she references [...]

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Skype, bad passwords, and wireless

Just after I published my last post, I got a Google alert on another blog post “HIPAA & Hijacked SKYPE Passwords: Another Security Violation that Brings Viability of Online Counseling via SKYPE into Yet More Questioning” at Telehealth.net in which the author talks about  Skype password hijacking. Password hijacking means that someone else basically breaks [...]

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