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June 18, 2020

Guidance Issued on Addressing Privacy and Security Risks for Telehealth Data in the Cloud

The Cloud Security Alliance has published a new resource to help healthcare organizations address the privacy and security risks associated with the processing, storage, and ...

June 17, 2020

Ripple20: Critical Vulnerabilities in Treck TCP/IP Stack Affect Hundreds of Millions of Devices

A set of 19 vulnerabilities have been identified in the TCP/IP software library developed by Cincinnati-based Treck Inc., a developer of real-time embedded internet protocols ...

June 15, 2020

Another Phishing Attack Impacts University of Utah Health

University of Utah Health has been impacted by a new phishing attack, with the most recent attack leading to the exposure of the protected health ...

June 11, 2020

June 23, 2020: MVP GrowthFest: Join Magic Johnson and Channel All-Stars at this Must Attend Virtual MSP Event

Businesses in all industry sectors have faced difficult challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic and have had to make considerable changes in order to survive. ...

June 7, 2020

Illegal Disposal of Patient Records Discovered by St Joseph Health System

St Joseph Health System in North Central Indiana is contacting clients to inform them that a portion of protected health information has been breached and ...

June 4, 2020

Zoom Patches Two Serious RCE Flaws and States E2E Encryption Will Not Be Available to Free Users

Two high severity vulnerabilities in the Zoom videoconferencing platform have been identified by researchers at the Cisco Talos threat intelligence team that could allow a ...

May 30, 2020

BJC HealthCare Patients at 19 Hospitals Impacted by Phishing Attack

BJC Healthcare has released that statement that revealed that three of its staff email accounts have been accessed by an unauthorized actor as a result ...

May 22, 2020

Ransomware Attack Sees Data Stolen from Magellan Health

Magellan Health, a Fortune 500 company, has revealed that it has suffered a ransomware attack during April that led to the encryption of files and ...

May 15, 2020

Improved Compliance Revealed in Ciitizen HIPAA Right of Access Study

There has been a major improvement in compliance with the HIPAA Right of Access, according to the most recent Patient Record Scorecard Report from Ciitizen. ...

May 15, 2020

Saint Francis Healthcare Partners & Florida Internal Medicine Practice Hit by Ransomware Attacks

Saint Francis Healthcare Partners in Connecticut has begun making contact with 38,529 patients to make them aware that a portion of their protected health information ...

May 14, 2020

2020 Will See Many Businesses Switch to App-Centric Cloud Governance

The public cloud will continue to grow in 2020 and multicloud strategies are fast becoming the norm for businesses. Cloud vendors are working hard to ...

May 8, 2020

Europe’s Largest Private Hospital Operator Hit with Snake Ransomware Attack

A large-scale Snake ransomware campaign is underway after a period of low-level activity. Snake ransomware was first identified by MalwareHunter Team in January 2020 and ...

May 6, 2020

Malicious COVID-19 Domains Taken Down and New Blocklists Released

Cybercriminals have registered large numbers of COVID-19 themed domains which are being used for a variety of scams. Internet service providers are being ordered to ...

April 29, 2020

Microsoft Offers Advice to Healthcare Organizations on Reducing Risk of Manual Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations and others involved in the fight against COVID-19 are continuing. In many cases, the attackers gained access to systems many ...

April 20, 2020

14,795 Oncology Patients Impacted in Washington University School of Medicine Data Breach

Washington University School of Medicine is getting in touch with 14,795 oncology patients to inform them that a portion of their protected health information may ...

April 16, 2020

Two Zoom Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Being Offered for Sale for $500,000

Two zero-day flaws in the Zoom videoconferencing platform have allegedly been discovered by hackers who are now offering them for sale. The hackers claim the ...

April 14, 2020

Ransomware Attack on Andrews Braces Impacts PHI of 16,600 Patients

The Sparks, NV orthodontics clinic, Andrews Braces, has suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in the encryption of patient data. The attack was discovered on ...

April 13, 2020

INTERPOL Issues Warning About Increase in Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals

Hospitals, research facilities and other healthcare organizations on the front line in the fight against the 2019 Novel Coronavirus and Covid-19 are not only facing ...

April 13, 2020

Brandywine Urology Consultants Ransomware Attack Potentially Impacts Over 113,000 Patients

Delaware medial practice Brandywine Urology Consultants has revealed that a ransomware attack on January 25, 2020 led to the encryption of files on its servers ...

April 10, 2020

Healthcare Resource Group & Confido have PHI Exposed in Phishing Attacks

The pharmacy benefits consulting group Confido has begun alerting 3,600 of its clients’ employees, members, and their dependents, that a portion of their personal information ...

April 7, 2020

More Than 82% of Public-Facing Exchange Servers Still Vulnerable to Critical Exchange Control Panel Flaw

An analysis of public-facing Exchange servers by Rapid7 has revealed 82.5% are still vulnerable to a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Exchange Control ...

April 3, 2020

Zoom Security Concerns Mount as New Flaws Identified

The 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic has forced many employees into telecommuting with them maintaining contact with the office through videoconferencing apps such as Zoom. Zoom ...

April 2, 2020

Otis R. Bowen Center for Human Services Data Breach Impacts up to 35,800 Patients

The Otis R. Bowen Center for Human Services, an Indiana-based supplier of mental health and addiction recovery healthcare services, has revealed that unauthorized actors have ...

March 25, 2020

Data Breaches Reported at LifeSprk & University of Utah Health

LifeSprk is making contact with 9,000 of its account holders to inform them that a a limited amount of their protected health information may have ...

March 24, 2020

Apptio Integrates AWS Savings Plans More Fully into Cloudability Platform

Apptio has announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) Savings Plans have now been further incorporated into the Apptio Cloudability platform and recommendations will be made ...

March 10, 2020

Microsoft Releases Patches for 115 Vulnerabilities Including 26 Critical Flaws

Microsoft released a record number of patches on March Patch Tuesday. 115 vulnerabilities have been patched across the entire product range, including 26 vulnerabilities that ...

March 3, 2020

Google’s Response to Senators Questions About Ascension Partnership Deemed Incomplete

After it became public that a massive amount of patient data had been shared with Google by the Catholic health system Ascension, the second biggest ...

March 2, 2020

High Severity Flaw Patched in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

NVIDIA has released security updates that correct flaws in the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver and NVIDIA VGPU Software. An updated GPU display driver has been ...

February 29, 2020

What is a DNS Filter?

In this post we explain what a DNS filter is, why DNS filtering is important for cybersecurity, and other advantages of DNS filtering, but first ...

February 25, 2020

Micropatch Available to Fix for CVE-2020-0674 Internet Explorer Flaw for Windows 10 1903 and 1909 Users

Enterprise users of Windows 10 v1903 and v1909 may have held off patching the CVE-2020-0674 vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 9-11 due to the problems ...

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