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...
The little-known layer of software that lets your X-ray sensor talk to your practice management system is also the thing most likely to break when you change vendors, update Windows, or move to a new computer. Here is what an imaging bridge actually does, why...
In a single week this October, a North Carolina dental group was listed on a ransomware leak site and a Pennsylvania dental practice agreed to pay $140,000 to settle a HIPAA case. The two have nothing in common except the lesson: a dental practice can...
The owner of a well-known ransomware-recovery company was just charged with secretly paying the attackers while telling clients he used proprietary technology to decrypt their files. It is a sharp reminder that when your data is held hostage, almost nothing is under your control —...
A breach at a European dental-software vendor exposed patient and staff records with no malware, no ransomware, and no stolen password — just a flaw called IDOR that let an attacker read other people's records by changing a number in a web address. Here is...
Security researchers have shown that a booby-trapped spreadsheet can make LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice run an attacker's code the instant the file is opened — with none of the macro warnings users are trained to watch for. LibreOffice has a fix; OpenOffice does not yet....
Administrators are reporting that the September 2026 Windows Server cumulative update, KB5122876, sends every Server 2019 domain controller into a boot-loop blue screen. For a dental practice whose whole network depends on a single server, that is not an inconvenience — it is the lights...
Administrators are reporting that the September 2026 Windows Server cumulative update, KB5122876, sends every Server 2019 domain controller into a boot-loop blue screen. For a dental practice whose whole network depends on a single server, that is not an inconvenience — it is the lights...
Epic, the largest medical-records vendor in the United States, just paused most product development to fix security flaws that could have exposed patient data. When the biggest player in health software hits the brakes on everything to shore up security, it is worth asking what...
Endpoint detection and response is built to catch malware running on a computer. But a growing share of attacks never touch the host at all — they play out entirely inside the browser and the cloud apps your practice logs into every day. Here is...
A critical zero-day in Fortinet's FortiMail email security gateway lets attackers plant files on the device with no password - and it is already being exploited, with no full patch yet available. Here is why the appliance that filters your practice's email just became the...
Two actively exploited zero-days in Citrix NetScaler remote-access gateways are letting attackers seize the device that guards an internal network - no login required - and hospitals have already pulled remote access offline. Here is why a dental practice should care even if it has...
Attackers no longer need custom malware to take over a practice network. Fresh phishing campaigns are stealing Microsoft 365 sessions and then quietly installing the same remote-access tools your IT provider uses. Here is how RMM abuse works and how a dental practice can tell...
A recent attack that pried patient records out of a medical software provider through a single SQL injection flaw is a wake-up call for dental practices. Here is what the vulnerability is, why your practice management software may be exposed, and the concrete steps to...
