Compliance

June 13, 2023

June 2023 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches 78 Flaws; 6 Critical

Microsoft has fixed 78 vulnerabilities on June 2023 Patch Tuesday bringing the month’s total up to 94 including the 16 vulnerabilities in Chromium-based browsers that ...

June 2, 2023

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care: 2.5 Million Members Affected by Ransomware Attack

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a Canton, Massachusetts-based nonprofit health services provider, has confirmed that it was the victim of a ransomware attack in April 2023. ...

May 2, 2023

How to Make Google Forms HIPAA Compliant

HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates need to know how to make Google Forms HIPAA compliant before using the Workspace service to collect, store, or ...

April 21, 2023

HB 300 Training Requirements

Information on the HB 300 training requirements for companies, organizations, and individuals that do business with Texas residents that involves access to protected health information ...

April 19, 2023

HHS Publishes New Resources for Improving Healthcare Cybersecurity

The Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group and the HHS 405(d) Program have published three additional resources for the healthcare sector to help them ...

April 12, 2023

Healthcare Providers, Google Meet and HIPAA Compliance

For the past few years, the good faith use of Google Meet and HIPAA compliance has not been an issue for healthcare providers due to ...

April 7, 2023

Phishers Turn to Telegram to Market Their Kits and Services

Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to Telegram to share tactics and market their services, especially threat actors specializing in phishing, according to Kaspersky. The phishing community ...

March 15, 2023

March 2023 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 83 Flaws, Including 2 Zero-Day Bugs

Microsoft released patches to fix 83 vulnerabilities on March 2023 Patch Tuesday, including two actively exploited zero-day flaws, one in Outlook and one in Windows ...

March 13, 2023

International Law Enforcement Operation Takes Down NetWire RAT

An international law enforcement operation has resulted in the seizure of the infrastructure used to support the NetWire remote access Trojan (RAT). NetWire was first ...

March 6, 2023

FTC Proposes Multi-Million-Dollar Penalty for BetterHelp to Resolve Consumer Privacy Violations

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced another enforcement action stemming from the disclosure of consumers’ sensitive health information to marketing companies for advertising purposes. ...

February 8, 2023

Dashlane Publishes Password Manager Source Code

The password manager provider Dashlane has made the surprising announcement that the source code for its mobile app has been released on GitHub, in what ...

February 1, 2023

Spate of DDoS Attacks on Hospitals as Hacktivist Group Responds to Increased Support for Ukraine

Healthcare providers in the United States and other NATO countries have been warned about the risk of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by the ...

January 23, 2023

Some Popular Password Managers Found to Auto-Fill Passwords on Untrusted Websites

Last week, Google announced that it had discovered a security issue with certain password managers, which could be tricked into autosuggesting passwords on untrusted pages. ...

January 15, 2023

What is HIPAA Email Archiving Compliance?

HIPAA email archiving compliance is an alternative way to describe HIPAA compliant email archiving. However, there is more than one way to archive emails; and ...

January 3, 2023

LockBit Ransomware Gang Apologizes for Attack on Canadian Children’s Hospital

An affiliate of the LockBit ransomware gang recently conducted an attack on the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada. The attack occurred on ...

December 29, 2022

270,000 Patients Affected by Louisiana Hospital Cyberattack

Lake Charles Memorial Health System has confirmed that the sensitive information of almost 270,000 patients was compromised in an October 2022 cyberattack. The attack was ...

December 21, 2022

Fortnite Developer Agrees to Pay $520 Million to Settle FTC Complaint

Epic Games, the developer of the hugely popular battle royale game Fortnite, has agreed to pay $520 million to settle claims that it violated the ...

December 11, 2022

HIPAA and Pictures – The Challenge of Compliance

The relationship between HIPAA and pictures is a challenging area of compliance – especially for healthcare providers who may often receive unsolicited images that do ...

December 9, 2022

Bitwarden Adds Passwordless Authentication to its Password Manager

Password managers improve security by making it easy for users to set strong and unique passwords for their accounts. They also make logging in convenient, ...

December 3, 2022

What Does Pharmacy HIPAA Compliance Consist Of?

Pharmacy HIPAA compliance consists of meeting the requirements of the HIPAA Administrative Requirements, the Privacy Rule, the Security Rule, and the Breach Notification Rule. However, ...

December 1, 2022

HIPAA Compliance for Dental Offices

HIPAA compliance for dental offices is not as straightforward as complying with the standards of the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules because there are ...

November 15, 2022

What are the HIPAA Rules for Medical Devices?

Following the introduction of the HITECH Act and the passing of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, Pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers have had ...

October 31, 2022

Why You Stop Using Your Web Browser as a Password Manager

Passwords are often all that stands between a cybercriminal and your sensitive personal information. If the password for an online account is guessed, all information ...

October 20, 2022

Information of up to 3 Million Advocate Aurora Health Patients Impermissibly Disclosed to Meta and Others

Advocate Aurora Health has recently announced that patient data has been impermissibly disclosed to Meta/Facebook and Google as a result of the use of third-party ...

October 12, 2022

October Patch Tuesday: 90+ Vulnerabilities Patched, but Not ProxyNotShell Flaws

Microsoft released patches to fix 96 vulnerabilities across its suite of products on October 2022 Patch Tuesday, including fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities, one of ...

October 3, 2022

Safe and Secure Password Sharing for Businesses

In an ideal world, every employee would have their own password for the accounts and resources they need to access from the moment they started ...

September 23, 2022

Using a Business Password Manager to Share ePHI in Compliance with HIPAA

Using a business password manager to share ePHI in compliance with HIPAA is a viable alternative to other secure forms of communication if your organization ...

September 22, 2022

Why Changes May Soon be Required to ISO 27001 Password Management Policies

Most accredited organization´s ISO 27001 password management policies are based on the 2013 version of the standard for information security management systems. However, with new ...

September 10, 2022

Is the Use of Mandrill by Healthcare Organizations HIPAA Compliant?

The leading automated email marketing platform Mandrill is a transactional email service that MailChimp provides. This software allows companies to automatically broadcast emails to customers ...

August 17, 2022

2022 Sees Major Increase in Malicious Browser Downloads

According to Kaspersky, in H1, 2022, 1,300,000 attempts were made to install malicious browser extensions, which is a substantial increase from 2021, when 1,823,263 attempts ...

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