Compliance

October 25, 2016

Healthcare Industry at Risk from More than 200 Ransomware Families

Healthcare ransomware attacks have increased dramatically in 2016, and so has the number of threats. While healthcare organizations work hard at improving their defenses to ...

October 25, 2016

Warning Issued on Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Installer

A fake Microsoft Security Essentials installer is being used by scammers to fool users into calling a bogus tech support team. The fake Microsoft Security ...

October 21, 2016

Healthcare Data Breaches Occurring at an Alarming Rate

Healthcare data breaches are increasing at the year goes on, according to the latest Breach Barometer report from Protenus. As if the breach tally for ...

October 21, 2016

Critical VeraCrypt Flaws Patched: Users Urged to Upgrade

Critical VeraCrypt flaws that were recently uncovered by cybersecurity firm QuarksLab have now been patched in version 1.19 of the popular full-disk encryption software. Users ...

October 20, 2016

Fall in Price of Health Data Likely to Mean Healthcare Cyberattacks

Supply of healthcare data is outstripping demand which has led to a drop in the price of health data on the darknet, according to studies ...

October 19, 2016

$2.14 Million St. Joseph Health HIPAA Settlement Announced

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has agreed to a $2.14 million St. Joseph Health HIPAA settlement after a ...

October 17, 2016

Healthcare Lawyers Increasingly Involved in Cybersecurity Matters

A recent survey conducted by Bloomberg Law and the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) asked more than 300 healthcare attorneys from across the United States ...

October 16, 2016

59% of Organizations Use Multi-Factor Authentication to Secure Assets

A recent survey conducted by the access management company SecureAuth has shown the use of multi-factor authentication to secure data is increasing in popularity, although ...

October 15, 2016

Saint Francis Health System Alerts Patients to Warren Clinic Data Breach

Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Saint Francis Health System has experienced a cyberattack that has resulted in the theft of patient data. The incident does not impact all ...

October 15, 2016

Integrity Transitional Hospital Hack Impacts Multiple Healthcare Providers

Denton, Texas-based Integrity Transitional Hospital has notified patients, many of whom are children, that some of their protected health information has potentially been viewed and ...

October 13, 2016

Apria Healthcare Data Breach Discovered

A recently discovered Apria Healthcare data breach has been discovered which has impacted 1,987 patients. the security breach has resulted in the exposure of a ...

October 13, 2016

Peachtree Orthopedics Discovers Patient Database has been Hacked

Peachtree Orthopedics has announced a hacker gained access to a patient database containing names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, treatment codes, prescription records, and ...

October 11, 2016

5 Critical Flaws and 5 Zero Days Fixed This Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has issued ten bulletins this Patch Tuesday, which fix five new zero days and five critical vulnerabilities. In contrast to previous Patch Tuesdays, older ...

October 6, 2016

Marin Healthcare Ransomware Attack Reported

A Marin Healthcare ransomware attack has been reported that resulted in sensitive patient data being encrypted. The attack affected one of Marin Healthcare’s vendors, Marin ...

October 4, 2016

Patients Warned of Animas Insulin Pump Security Vulnerabilities

Johnson & Johnson has issued a warning to patients advising them that recently discovered insulin pump security vulnerabilities could potentially be exploited by hackers to ...

October 3, 2016

Another Public Health Service Data Breach is Discovered

Another public health service data breach has recently been discovered. This time around it is current and former members of the Commissioned Corps that have ...

October 1, 2016

Business Associate HIPAA Audits Now Imminent

The business associate HIPAA audits are scheduled to commence this month, The business associate HIPAA compliance audits are not expected to result in punitive action ...

September 28, 2016

Healthcare Web Application Attacks Have Increased 3 Fold in 12 Months

According to a recent report from cloud service provider Akamai Technologies, healthcare web application attacks have increased threefold since the second quarter of 2015. Web ...

September 27, 2016

Healthcare Data Breach Costs Rise 282% in 12 Months

A recent study from CheckPoint shows that healthcare data breach costs have risen by an astonishing 282% in the past 12 months, while there has ...

September 27, 2016

ONC Issues Guidance on EHR Contract Negotiations

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has issued new guidance on EHR contract negotiations to help HIPAA covered entities avoid some ...

September 20, 2016

Agari Named as a Distinguished Vendor in Email Security by TAG

The Amoroso Group (TAG Cyber) has published its first 2017 TAG Cyber Security Annual – A Practical Handbook and Reference Guide for the Working Cyber Security ...

September 19, 2016

UK Healthcare Data Breach Statistics May Be Misleading

A look at the UK healthcare data breach statistics gives the impression that the healthcare industry is being targeted by cybercriminals and the industry is ...

September 8, 2016

St. Jude Medical Sues Muddy Waters for Disseminating False Information

The “revelation” that St. Jude Medical devices contain serious security flaws that could potentially be exploited by hackers to cause harm to patients has certainly ...

September 8, 2016

18,000 Patients Impacted by Highline Medical Center Data Breach

CHI Franciscan Health Highline Medical Center has notified 18,399 patients that some of their protected health information has been exposed on the Internet as a ...

August 31, 2016

Scan Health Data Breach Involved Unauthorized Use of Legitimate Login Credentials

On June 27, 2016, SCAN Health discovered that an unauthorized individual had gained access to the data of its members. Sales contact sheets had been ...

August 31, 2016

Appalachian Regional Healthcare Security Breach Announced

Hospitals in Kentucky and West Virginia have been forced to work without key computer systems as a result of an Appalachian Regional Healthcare security breach. A ...

August 26, 2016

EXTRABACON Flaw Patched by Cisco

After being alerted to the EXTRABACON flaw on August 13, 2016, Cisco has begun issuing software updates for its Adaptive Security Appliance devices, and other ...

August 19, 2016

Surge in Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Reported by FireEye

According to a recent report from security firm FireEye, there has been a surge in healthcare ransomware attacks in August. Massive new Locky ransomware campaigns ...

August 19, 2016

Health and Fitness App Privacy Policies Often Absent, says Think Tank

One would assume that health and fitness app privacy policies would be more important than many other types of app, given the types of data ...

August 12, 2016

Bon Secours Health System Announces 655,000 PHI Incident

This week, Maryland-based Bon Secours Health System has announced that the protected health information of some of its patients has been accessible over the Internet ...

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