Photo: Halo Health Ransomware has been plaguing healthcare provider organizations for some time now. The onset of the COVID-19, in […]
Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the healthcare industry through the wringer. It’s required new ways of working, new methods of […]
VMware Carbon Black's healthcare users faced 239M attempted cyberattacks in 2020
A retrospective report released this week by the cybersecurity software vendor VMware Carbon Black found that there were 239.4 million […]
Mayo Clinic sued over breach of patient health records
Patients filed class-action complaints against the Mayo Clinic this past week accusing the system of violating the Minnesota Health Records […]
Aetna, city of New Haven hit with OCR fines after data breach
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights leveraged $1,000,000 in fines against Aetna Life Insurance Company […]
Premera Blue Cross to pay $6.85M to settle 2015 breach
The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Premera Blue Cross announced this past […]
Google says it blocks 18 million COVID-19 related scam emails each day
The COVID-19 pandemic has paved the way for a flood of cybersecurity threats, including email-based phishing and malware threats. Google […]
HITRUST intros new security model for cloud service providers
HITRUST has launched its new HITRUST Shared Responsibility Program and Matrix Version 1.0, which it touts as the first common […]
Taking cybersecurity up a notch: 4 steps to shut down threats
Healthcare organizations have been fighting the good fight against cybercrime for many years. But they still need to up their […]
UK regulator to assess claims that UK health websites shared users’ sensitive data with third parties
UK data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is assessing a Financial Times (FT) investigation which claimed UK health […]