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Organized cybercrime – not your average mafia

January 16, 2020 sarah JonasResearch Results

Research from Michigan State University is one of the first to identify common attributes of cybercrime networks, revealing how these groups function and work together to cause an estimated $445-600 billion of harm globally per year.

Here’s the kind of data hackers get about you from hospitals

September 23, 2019 sarah JonasResearch Results

New research from Michigan State University and Johns Hopkins University is the first to uncover the specific data leaked through hospital breaches, sounding alarm bells for nearly 170 million people.

‘Hidden’ data exacerbates rural public health inequities

August 18, 2019 sarah JonasResearch Results

While some of the data rural public health officials need to better serve their communities and guide public health policy and spending exists, that data is hard to access and use. University of Washington researchers conducted qualitative surveys of rural public health leaders in four Northwest states to find the barriers they face to getting and using data. The results of their research have been published in JAMIA and the researchers are establishing an accessible database with the tools rural officials need to understand and share\ the data.