A bill reintroduced in the Senate would replace healthcare's voluntary cybersecurity guidance with enforceable minimum standards, mandatory audits, annual executive sign-off, and far larger penalties. Here is what the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act would require, and why a small dental practice should start...
On September 6, 2026, the Direwolf ransomware group listed dental-billing outsourcer eAssist Dental Solutions on its leak site. When the vendor that runs your billing is breached, the exposed patient data is still your responsibility - here is what that means for your practice....
The moment you point an AI tool at a radiograph or a consult recording, you have created a new pathway for protected health information to leave your practice - and the accountability does not leave with it. Here is how HIPAA and Ontario's PHIPA actually...
AI scribes promise to get your clinicians out of the chart and back to the patient. But 'AI scribe' covers three different products - structured voice charting, dental-native platforms, and horizontal ambient note-takers borrowed from medicine. Here is how Bola AI, Heidi, and Denti.AI actually...
AI receptionists now answer dental phones in under a second and book appointments straight into the PMS. For a practice, the questions are not about the voice - they are about how it plugs into your scheduling stack, where call recordings go, and whether the...
The headline says a clinic was breached. The invoice arrives quietly for months afterward: legal fees, notification mailings, credit monitoring, a class-action settlement, and the revenue lost while the practice was dark. Here is what a data breach actually costs a dental office - and...
The server that runs your clinic is not the only computer with your name on it. Attackers are actively forging admin logins into WordPress through two critical flaws in a popular single sign-on plugin — and for most practices, the marketing website is the one...
In a single week this August, two dental organizations turned up on ransomware leak sites — one of them newly named by the Rhysida gang. A leak-site listing is a different kind of emergency than a locked-up server, and it changes what your practice has...
Overjet is the most heavily FDA-cleared dental AI on the market, and it now sits on both the clinical and the insurance side of a claim. For a practice, the real questions are not about accuracy - they are about how it connects to your...
"Keep your software updated" is the most-repeated and least-useful piece of security advice a dental practice ever gets. The three platforms that run dentistry — Dentrix, Eaglesoft, and Open Dental — each handle updates in a fundamentally different way, and a patching policy that ignores...
Microsoft just disclosed a maximum-severity flaw in Entra ID, the cloud identity service your practice logs in through every day. It was rated a perfect 10, exploited in the wild — and there is nothing for you to patch, because Microsoft fixed it on its...
A cyber insurance policy is only a safety net if the claim actually pays. Insurers have quietly rewritten the rules: coverage now depends on security controls you have to prove you were running before the incident. Here is what dental practices are being asked to...
CISA has confirmed attackers are actively exploiting a critical flaw in a networking component built into every supported version of Windows. It needs no password and no click — just a crafted packet sent to an exposed port. Here is what CVE-2026-33824 means for a...
Microsoft quietly patched a critical flaw in its Configuration Manager (SCCM) back in July. This week, a working proof-of-concept exploit went public, turning a paper risk into a practical one. If your practice group or its IT provider uses SCCM to manage Windows machines, the...
The Microsoft deadline was one thing. Now your practice management vendor has drawn its own line: after June 30, 2026, Henry Schein One will not support Dentrix on Windows 10. If your operatory or front-desk machines are still on Windows 10, the software running your...
