CISA has warned that a flaw in the Orthanc DICOM server lets an attacker crash your imaging archive with a single malformed X-ray image. It's a denial-of-service bug, not a data theft - but in a clinical setting, an imaging server that won't stay up...
Anthropic - the company behind the Claude AI model - just disclosed that attackers used its own AI to rebuild malware every time security products caught it, and to strip secrets out of 1.8 million Android apps. This is the shift defenders have been bracing...
The same September Windows Server update you were told to install to close two actively exploited zero-days is now knocking Remote Desktop Services offline - the exact way many dental practices reach their practice-management server. Sessions hang, new logins fail, and some servers need a...
CISA has confirmed ransomware gangs are now exploiting a critical WatchGuard Firebox firewall flaw (CVE-2025-14733) that lets an attacker run code on the device with no password at all. Nine months after the patch shipped, roughly 9,000 firewalls are still exposed. If your dental practice...
Every dental AI demo skips the least glamorous question: how does the X-ray actually get from your sensor to the AI, and the result back onto your screen? The answer is one of four plumbing methods - TWAIN, DICOM, cloud API, or a PMS bridge...
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday is its largest ever - roughly 974 fixes, two of them for flaws already being exploited. A dental practice cannot patch 974 things by Friday, and it does not have to. Here is how to read a record-breaking update without...
The AI story in dentistry started at the operatory - reading radiographs and writing notes. The quieter, faster-moving story is happening at the front desk and in the back office, where AI now parses remittances, works denials, and turns the practice-management database into a live...
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...
CERT Polska has disclosed six MikroTik RouterOS vulnerabilities, and attackers are already chaining two of them - a combination dubbed 'MikroTrick' - to take full control of routers whose SSH is exposed to the internet. If your practice runs a MikroTik, this is a patch-today...
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...
Ontario dentists must keep patient records for at least ten years, then destroy them securely. That single sentence hides a decade of IT decisions about storage, backups, format survival, and disposal that most practices never plan for....
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...
Attackers are hiding invisible Unicode characters inside phishing emails so keyword filters read one thing and your staff see another. Here is how ASCII smuggling works and what a dental practice should do about it....
A wave of newly FDA-cleared dental imaging - the first dental-dedicated MRI, new 3D and AI-assisted modalities - is arriving in practices. The clinical excitement is real, but there is a quieter story your IT has to answer: these images are far bigger, and they...
