Your Dentrix server holds the schedule, the ledger, the clinical notes, and the images — the entire operating record of the practice. Most offices assume it is protected. Here is the backup, patch, and access checklist that decides whether a bad day is an inconvenience...
A newly reported UEFI bootkit is the latest malware able to slip past Secure Boot on fully patched Windows machines — because the fix for this class of threat is not applied automatically. It is the kind of infection that survives wiping the disk, and...
A new quarterly roundup puts hard numbers on a trend dental practices have been feeling all year: ransomware against the U.S. healthcare sector climbed 64% from Q2 to Q3 2026, with confirmed attacks now averaging more than three a day. The targets are not just...
On October 21 the PHP project shipped emergency patches for two critical flaws it calls PHP2Shell — unauthenticated remote code execution scored 9.2, affecting essentially every web server that runs PHP. That quietly includes a large share of dental practice websites, patient portals and self-hosted...
This quarter, AI radiograph reading moved decisively into the cloud — Pearl, Overjet and Dentsply Sirona's DS Core all shipped practice-ready tools. The clinical pitch is easy to say yes to. The IT decision underneath is the one that protects your patients. Here is the...
Between October 15 and 16, copies of the paid Rank Math PRO SEO plugin downloaded from the vendor's own site carried malware that installs a hidden, self-restoring backdoor. It is a reminder that many dental practice websites run on WordPress plugins nobody is actively watching...
At a July hacking competition, a researcher disclosed something quietly significant: he had used AI to help find a Linux kernel bug and build a working root exploit for it — including tuning the split-second timing a normally fragile attack depends on. The vulnerability matters...
When the Interlock group listed O2 Dental Group on its leak site in October, the alarming part was not the breach itself — it was how long the attackers had reportedly been inside first. Analysts place initial access as far back as December 2025: the...
The box from the electronics store that guards your patient data was designed for a living room, not a clinic. Government agencies spent 2026 warning that small-office routers are now a primary target for criminal and nation-state botnets. Here is the difference between a consumer...
A specialist asks you to send the CBCT. The fast answer — email the file or hand over a USB stick — is also the one most likely to end in a privacy breach. Here is the secure way to share a 3D dental scan...
Most dental breaches do not begin with exotic malware — they begin with a person clicking, trusting, or re-using a password. Verizon's 2026 report pins 62% of breaches on the human element. Here is how a small practice builds the one control that targets that...
Microsoft's October 13, 2026 Patch Tuesday was its largest ever — more than 1,400 vulnerabilities fixed, including an actively exploited Windows flaw that lets malicious email attachments run without warning. Here is what matters for a dental practice, which fix carries a hard deadline, and...
The first dental-dedicated MRI has FDA clearance and is now reaching practices through the major dental distributors. A radiation-free scan of soft tissue is a genuine clinical advance — but the datasets it produces, and the storage, network, backup, and integration they demand, land squarely...
The ADA and AAOMR's first major revision of dental imaging guidance since 2012 tells practices to stop imaging on a schedule and start imaging only when there is a documented clinical reason. That is as much a recordkeeping and software problem as a clinical one...
Microsoft has rushed out an emergency Exchange Server update for CVE-2026-96940, a flaw that lets any authenticated user read other people's emails and attachments across the same organization. Here is what it means for a dental practice that still runs its own email server, why...
