The US healthcare sector has long faced cyber threats from all directions, from insider threats to foreign state-sponsored adversaries. In its latest threat brief, the HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued recommendations to Congress about how the federal government could improve critical infrastructure cyber incident reporting in a new report. Notable...
Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) final rule on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure, publicly traded companies now are required to disclose cyber incidents without...
Wave three of the Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study is now open for participation, Censinet announced alongside co-sponsors KLAS Research, the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Health...
Amerita, a specialty infusion services company, notified 219,707 individuals of a healthcare data breach that stemmed from its parent company, PharMerica. As previously reported, long-term care...
HHS and its many agencies and offices serve a variety of roles within the healthcare sector, including several in cybersecurity. At the most recent HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, leaders from the Administration for Strategic...
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Cyber threat groups are not slowing down their efforts to target healthcare, as exemplified by the tens of millions of health records breached in 2023 so far. With this in mind, experts...
Ransomware and supply chain attacks remain top cybersecurity threats across all industries. But board members are also worried about the rise of generative AI, a risk so new that it is difficult to...
The Joint Commission, a healthcare accreditation organization, issued guidance on preserving patient safety after a cyberattack in its latest Sentinel Event Alert. The Joint Commission regularly...
More than three-quarters of surveyed healthcare professionals reported experiencing at least one cybersecurity incident at their organizations in the last year, Claroty revealed in its “Global...
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) issued an updated version of its “Health Industry Cybersecurity Information Sharing Best...
Healthcare data breaches remain a troubling and frequent occurrence despite an observed dip in the number of breaches reported to HHS in the first six months of 2023, Critical Insight noted in its H1...
Healthcare cybersecurity is a challenge for providers, network defenders, and regulators across the US, as exemplified by the influx of data breach notifications reported to HHS this year alone. But protecting patients and hospitals from...
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a division of HHS, announced the formation of the Digital Health Security (DIGIHEALS) project, aimed at protecting the United States...
From defender to defendant, Orrick Law Firm shifts gears after a data breach on its systems jeopardized the privacy of more than 152,818 individuals and landed the law firm with its own healthcare data...
Security vulnerabilities in medical devices and the software applications that support them continue to pose a significant threat to healthcare, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center...
It is reasonable to assume that the first few links that pop up as a result of an inquiry on a search engine are the most credible. In fact, thanks to search engine optimization (SEO), the first results often are the most reliable sources....
A MOVEit Transfer hack at IBM resulted in the potential exposure of health data for millions of Colorado Medicaid beneficiaries, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF)...
The Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) issued an analysis of Lapsus$ threat group and its tactics, encouraging organizations to strengthen identity and access management processes and build resiliency...
As cyberattacks continue to impact critical infrastructure organizations across the country, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is tackling cyber risk head-on. The...