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January 27, 2020

55% of Organizations Were Successfully Phished in 2019

Phishing is the most common method of attacking organizations and it continues to cause problems for IT departments and considerable losses for organizations. A new ...

January 20, 2020

Florida and Texas Healthcare Providers Report Ransomware Attacks

One of the most recent developments in the world of cyber crime to the tactic of threat actors to deploy ransomware to encrypt files to ...

January 14, 2020

NSA Issues Cybersecurity Advisory on Critical Flaw Affecting Windows 10 and Windows Server

The U.S. National Security Agency has taken the unusual step of publicly disclosing a vulnerability to a software vendor. This is the first time that ...

January 13, 2020

Phishing Attack Leads to Second Lawsuit Against Kalispell Regional Healthcare

A second lawsuit has been submitted against Kalispell Regional Healthcare in Montana in relation to a May 2019 phishing attack that resulted in the email ...

January 4, 2020

Survey: Cost of Healthcare Data Breaches Predicted to Reach $4 Billion in 2020

Healthcare sector data breaches are taking place at an unprecedented level. The healthcare data breach figures for 2019 have yet to be drawn up, but ...

January 3, 2020

Three-Year Insider Breach Discovered at North Ottawa Community Health System

North Ottawa Community Health System (NOCH) has become aware that a staff member at North Ottawa Community Hospital in Grand Haven, MI, viewed the medical ...

December 27, 2019

Critical Flaw Affecting 80,000 Businesses Patched by Citrix

A critical vulnerability in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway has been patched by Citrix. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated ...

December 19, 2019

Preinstalled Acer and Asus Software Contains Privilege Escalation Flaws

SafeBreach has discovered vulnerabilities in software preinstalled on Acer and Asus laptops and computers which could be exploited by hackers to execute malicious payloads with ...

December 13, 2019

The Cancer Center of Hawaii Delayed Radiation Therapy for Patients Due to Ransomware Attack

A ransomware attack took place, on November 5, 2019, on the Cancer Center of Hawaii in Oahu. The attack meant that the Cancer Center to ...

December 13, 2019

$85,000 HIPAA Right of Access Failures Results in Financial Penalty for Korunda Medical

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has revealed its second enforcement action as part of its HIPAA Right of Access ...

December 13, 2019

Zeppelin Ransomware Used to Attack MSPs, Technology, and Healthcare Companies

Security researchers at Blackberry Cylance have identified a new variant of Buran ransomware which is being used in targeted attacks on technology and healthcare companies ...

December 12, 2019

80,000 Patients of Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Impacted in Ransomware Attack

Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (SEMOMS) has made it public that a ransomware may have impacted the protected health information of almost 80,000 patients. ...

December 12, 2019

Sunrise Community Health and Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital Suffer Phishing Attacks

Evans, CO-based Sunrise Community Health has learned that the email accounts of several staff members were compromised due to employees responding to phishing emails. The ...

December 9, 2019

HIPAA Compliance for Amazon Lex

Amazon has revealed that the Amazon Lex chatbot service now supports HIPAA compliance and can be used by healthcare groups without breaching Health Insurance Portability ...

December 4, 2019

Privacy Protections for Consumer Health Data to be Enhanced by Smartwatch Data Act

Sens. Bill Cassidy, M.D., (R-Louisiana) and Jacky Rosen, (D-Nevada) have introduced the Stop Marketing And Revealing The Wearables And Trackers Consumer Health (Smartwatch) Data Act. ...

December 4, 2019

Sentara Hospitals Agrees to $2.175M HIPAA Settlement for Breach Notification Rule and BAA Failures

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued its eighth HIPAA financial penalty of 2019. Sentara Hospitals has agreed ...

November 30, 2019

Timothy Noonan Revealed as New Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy at Office for Civil Rights

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has appointed Timothy Noonan Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy. The position of ...

November 25, 2019

37 Vulnerabilities Identified in Popular Virtual Networking Computing Applications

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have identified 37 vulnerabilities in popular Virtual Network Computing (VNC) applications, some of which are critical and could allow access to ...

November 24, 2019

Ransomware Attack Impacts 107,000 Ferguson Medical Group Patients

Saint Francis Healthcare System has revealed that the computer network of Ferguson Medical Group has been hit by a ransomware attack. The attack took place ...

November 10, 2019

Mimecast Moves into New 79,000 Sq. ft Central London Headquarters

Mimecast has announced it has now opened its new London HQ in 1 Finsbury Avenue in Broadgate. The company has moved to its new 79,000 ...

October 30, 2019

Kalispell Regional Healthcare Contacts 140,209 Patients About Phishing Attack

Kalispell Regional Healthcare, located in Montana, is currently getting in touch with around 140,000 patients that some of their protected health information (PHI) was potentially ...

October 25, 2019

Range of HIPAA Breaches Result in $2.15 Million Civil Monetary Penalty for Jackson Health System

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has sanctioned a $2.15 million civil monetary penalty against the Miami, FL-located nonprofit academic ...

October 23, 2019

Millions of Patients’ Sensitive Data Found to be Accessible via the Internet

Due to the failure of nine companies to secure their medical databases, the sensitive health information of millions of patients has been exposed over the ...

October 23, 2019

15,982 South Texas Dermatopathology Patients Contacted in Relation to AMCA Data Breach

South Texas Dermatopathology is the most recent victim of the data breach at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) to make the breach known to the ...

October 19, 2019

Shared Network Drives Expose Thousands of Veterans’ Records

A report published by the Department of Veteran Affairs’ Office of Inspector General (VA OIG) audit has revealed that Internal Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) ...

October 18, 2019

How Much Does Cisco Umbrella Cost?

If you are looking for a content filtering solution that will protect your business from web-based threats, Cisco Umbrella will no doubt be one of ...

October 11, 2019

Healthcare Data Breach Report for September 2019 Published

36 healthcare data breaches of more than 500 records were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, during September, ...

October 9, 2019

Microsoft Patches 59 Vulnerabilities Including 9 Critical Flaws

October 2019 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft patch 59 vulnerabilities in its products including 8 critical flaws and 1 critical security advisory about the latest ...

October 8, 2019

PHI Disclosures on Yelp Lead to $10,000 Fine for Dental Practice

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has agreed to a HIPAA settlement for a violation case with Elite Dental Associates ...

October 2, 2019

FDA Issues Warning over Urgent/11 Vulnerabilities in Component Used in Medical Devices

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and ICS-CERT have issued warnings about 11 vulnerabilities in a software component used in several operating systems and ...

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