Compliance

April 3, 2024

Is it Possible to Have HIPAA Compliant Gmail?

It is possible to have HIPAA compliant Gmail if you subscribe to a Google Workspace account that supports HIPAA compliance, if the products included in ...

March 28, 2024

OCR Opens HIPAA Compliance Investigation of Change Healthcare

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights started the investigation of Change Healthcare three weeks after its cyberattack on February 21, 2024. Usually, OCR’s cyberattack and ...

March 26, 2024

Survey Finds Change Healthcare Cyberattack Impacting Hospital Finances and Patient Care Access

The recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, has sent affected the U.S. healthcare system greatly, marking it as one of the ...

March 22, 2024

Is Zelle HIPAA Compliant?

Zelle is not required to be HIPAA compliant due to a clause in the text of HIPAA that exempts payment processors from complying with HIPAA. ...

March 20, 2024

Legislative Revisions to Enhance Health Data Privacy

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who is a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has filed a white paper that ...

March 9, 2024

Change Healthcare Faces Lawsuit While Personal Touch Holding Corp Settles Lawsuit

Multiple Class Action Lawsuits Against Change Healthcare Due to Ransomware Attack On February 21, 2024, Change Healthcare encountered a Blackcat ransomware attack and has not ...

February 14, 2024

Half the Population of France Affected by Data Breaches at Healthcare Payment Processors

The French Data Protection Agency, CNIL, is investigating two data breaches at healthcare payment processors that have affected around 33 million individuals –almost half the ...

February 14, 2024

February 2024 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches 73 Flaws; 2 0Days

Microsoft has released patches to fix 73 flaws across its product suite on February 2024 Patch Tuesday, including 2 zero-day bugs that are being actively ...

February 1, 2024

Why Cybercriminals Target the Healthcare Sector and Why We Should Care

According to the HHS Office for Civil Rights, 2023 saw more than 116 million personal patient records compromised across 655 breaches. When personal identifiable information ...

January 8, 2024

Popular Password Manager Starts Enforcing 12-Character Master Passwords

While there are different schools of thought on password complexity, security experts agree that when it comes to making passwords difficult to guess, the longer ...

January 8, 2024

7 Facts about Security Breaches in Healthcare

Security breaches in healthcare are on the increase; and, although there has been a decline in the average number of records exposed per security breach, ...

January 3, 2024

Google Agrees to Settle $5 Billion “Incognito” Privacy Lawsuit

Google has agreed to settle a $5 billion lawsuit that alleged it spied on people who used the Chrome Browser in incognito mode and the ...

December 11, 2023

Is Stripe HIPAA compliant?

Stripe does not have to be HIPAA compliant to provide payment processing services to HIPAA covered entities and business associates because payment processing services are ...

November 29, 2023

Ardent Health System Ransomware Attack Affects Hospitals in Multiple States

A U.S. healthcare provider that operates hospitals in 6 states suffered a ransomware attack that has caused outages at several of its hospitals. Ardent Health ...

November 21, 2023

COO of Cybersecurity Company Pleads Guilty to Attack on Georgia Hospitals to Drum up Business

The former chief operating officer (COO) of a cybersecurity firm who hacked two hospitals in an attempt to win business has changed his plea to ...

November 14, 2023

Why Was HIPAA Created?

HIPAA was created to help individuals with health problems obtain health insurance and to make it easier for employees who change jobs or lose their ...

November 11, 2023

HIPAA Compliance for Home Health Care

HIPAA compliance for home health care workers can be especially challenging due to working in multiple – and sometimes unfamiliar – environments and often encountering ...

November 9, 2023

3 HIPAA Violation Consequences That Are Often Overlooked

The three HIPAA violation consequences most often overlooked affect individuals, healthcare organizations, and the timeliness of care in ways not often considered. HIPAA violations occur ...

November 7, 2023

American Hospital Association Files Lawsuit Against HHS Over Tracking Technology Guidance

In December 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance for entities regulated by the Health Insurance ...

November 6, 2023

Four Zero-Day MS Exchange Flaws Identified that Allow RCE and Data Theft

Four zero-day vulnerabilities have been identified in Microsoft Exchange that can lead to the disclosure of sensitive information and even remote code execution. The flaws ...

October 4, 2023

ZenRAT Password Stealer Masquerades as Bitwarden Password Manager Installer

Password managers can greatly improve security and are one of the measures currently being promoted during Cybersecurity Awareness Month; however, care must be taken when ...

September 26, 2023

One in Three Americans Now Use a Password Manager

Password manager usage has grown by 60% in the past year as Americans are now starting to appreciate the benefits that these tools provide. According ...

September 18, 2023

TikTok Slapped with €345 Million Fine for Child Privacy Violations

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland has fined TikTok €345 million ($368 million) for multiple violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) related ...

September 9, 2023

HIPAA Compliance Training for Employees

HIPAA compliance training for all employees, including medical staff, healthcare administrators, and IT staff, is important because it equips these diverse professionals with the knowledge, skills, and ...

August 15, 2023

4 Million Colorado Residents Have Health Data Stoen in MOVEit Hack

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF), which administers the Colorado Medicaid program, Child Health Plan Plus, and other health care programs, has recently announced a ...

August 7, 2023

Patch Released for Another Critical Flaw in PaperCut MF/NG

Another zero-day vulnerability has been identified in PaperCut MF/NG print management software. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-39143 and has been rated critical with a ...

July 28, 2023

Benefits of HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA compliance yields benefits including enhanced patient data security, privacy protection, improved trust through transparent handling of personal health information, standardized and efficient healthcare transactions, ...

July 18, 2023

Cloud Transition Security Guidance Issued by CISA

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a factsheet to help organizations securely transition from on-premises to cloud and hybrid environments and ...

July 13, 2023

Urgent Patching Required to Fix Critical and High-Severity SonicWall GMS/Analytics Flaws

SonicWall has released patches to fix 15 vulnerabilities in its Global Management System (GMS) firewall management and Analytics solutions, including 4 critical and 4 high-severity ...

July 12, 2023

Major HCA Healthcare Data Breach Affects 11 Million Patients

A major HCA Healthcare data breach has been reported this week after the discovery that a hacker stole the data of an estimated 11 million ...

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