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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 ...

September 25, 2019

Adobe Fixes Critical Coldfusion Flaws

Adobe has issued an out-of-band update for its web application platform Coldfusion which fixes two critical vulnerabilities and one important flaw. One of the critical ...

September 23, 2019

Major Disruption to Patient Services at Campbell County Health due to Ransomware Attack

Campbell County Health in Gillette, WY, has experienced a ransomware attack that has shut down hospital systems and is preventing access to patient data. The ...

September 21, 2019

Flaws Discovered in WLAN Firmware Used by Philips IntelliVue Portable Patient Monitors

Two flaws have been discovered in Philips IntelliVue WLAN firmware which impact certain IntelliVue MP monitors. The flaws could be exploited by hackers to download ...

September 18, 2019

Phishing Attacks at Magellan Health Subsidiaries Impact 56,226 Presbyterian Health Plan Subscribers

Magellan Health, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has revealed that discovered two of its subsidiaries have experienced phishing attacks that exposed the protected health information of ...

September 11, 2019

Unsecured Online PACS Makes 400 Million Medical Images Freely Accessible

Following a recently completed investigation by ProPublica, the German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, and vulnerability and analysis company, Greenbone Networks has stated that 24.3 million ...

September 10, 2019

Two Thirds of UK Employees Do Not Receive Regular Email Security Training

A recent study by cybersecurity firm Tessian suggests two thirds of UK employees do not receive regular email security training in the workplace. Consequently, UK ...

September 10, 2019

UC Health Phishing Attack Affects Multiple Email Accounts

University of Cincinnati Health (UC Health) is looking into a security breach that saw the email accounts of multiple employees accessed by an unauthorized person ...

September 8, 2019

13,905 Patients Targeted in Artesia General Hospital Phishing Attack

Artesia General Hospital, located in Artesia New Mexico, has stated that protected health information (PHI) of 13,905 patients has been illegally accessed in a planned ...

August 27, 2019

PHI of 183,000 Patients Exposed in Phishing Attack on Presbyterian Healthcare Services

The Albuquerque, NM-based not-for-profit health organization Presbyterian Healthcare Services, has suffered a phishing attack that resulted in the email accounts of several workers subjected to ...

August 25, 2019

HIPAA Compliance & iCloud

We look at HIPAA compliance and iCloud because, as more and more businesses take advantage of cloud computing, an important question for Covered Entities to ...

August 24, 2019

3,000 Records Potentially Compromised in Rhode Island Healthcare Attack

Rhode Island Ear, Nose and Throat Physicians Inc. (RIENT) is contacting 2,943 patients to make them aware that some of their health information was saved ...

August 24, 2019

10,000 Patients Have Personal Data Impacted in Massachusetts General Hospital Breach

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has identified that computer applications used by security experts in its Department of Neurology have been infiltrated using unauthorized access. The ...

August 22, 2019

Researchers Provide Insights into Motivations Behind Healthcare Cyberattacks

A new report from FireEye provides insights into the motivations behind cyberattacks on U.S. healthcare organizations. The report shows patient information is not the only ...

August 22, 2019

Data Breach Exposes Medical Records of Western Connecticut Health Network Patients

Nuvance Health has started getting in touch with certain Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) patients to make them aware that some of their protected health ...

August 12, 2019

Lost Thumb Drive was used to Store PHI of Renown Health Patients

Renown Health, the largest healthcare supplier in Northern Nevada, has started getting in touch with certain patients to make them aware that some of their ...

August 7, 2019

2019: A Particularly Bad Year for Healthcare Data Breaches

Cyberattacks on healthcare organizations have continued to increase throughout the first half of 2019 and this year has seen the discovery of the second largest ...

August 4, 2019

Emergency Notifications Systems & Business HIPAA-Compliance

Emergency notification systems for business are software services that are often implemented to alert personnel to the risk of danger. Situation that they are used ...

July 30, 2019

2 Billion Devices Vulnerable to Critical ‘Urgent/11’ VxWorks RCE Flaws

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Armis have identified 11 zero-day vulnerabilities in VxWorks, the most popular real time operating system (RTOS). The vulnerabilities are collectively known ...

July 24, 2019

AMCA Breach Impacts 2.2 Million Patients of Clinical Pathology Laboratories

It has recently been discovered that the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 2.2 million of patients of Clinical Pathology Laboratories in Texas may have ...

July 21, 2019

25,000 Adirondack Health Patients Hit by Email Account Hack

Vermont-based Adirondack Health is getting in touch with around 25,000 patients that some of their protected health information has potentially been obtained by a cyber ...

July 18, 2019

$301 Million Lost to BEC Scams Every Month

The number of successful Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams has increased significantly over the past two years, according to a new financial trend analysis report ...

July 16, 2019

14,591 DHS Patients have PHI Compromised in Phishing Attack on California Business Associate

Nemadji Research Corporation, an outfit working with California Reimbursement Enterprises, has revealed that an unauthorized person obtained access to the email account of a staff ...

July 16, 2019

Amazon CloudFront & HIPAA Compliance

Amazon CloudFront is a web service that enables users to optimize the speed of their web content delivery via the Internet and for website hosting. ...

July 11, 2019

One-Year Prison Sentence for TermPatient Care Coordinator Following HIPAA Violation

A former patient care coordinator based at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has been given a one-year prisons sentence for accessing the medical records ...

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