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Healthcare security culture steadily improving, but gaps remain

March 28, 2024 - As the healthcare and pharmaceuticals sector continues to face a high volume of cyberattacks, maintaining a strong security culture remains a crucial element to maintaining a strong security posture. KnowBe4’s 2024 Security Culture Report, which assesses security culture on a global scale, found healthcare to be in the...

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55% of Surveyed Healthcare Workers Believe Security Policies Keep Up With New Tech

by Jill McKeon

A survey of more than 400 healthcare workers revealed perceived gaps in healthcare security programs, Salesforce discovered. As new technologies such as generative AI gain popularity, security experts...

HSCC Releases Free Video Series Providing Healthcare Cybersecurity Awareness, Training to Clinicians

by Jill McKeon

The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group has released a free eight-part video series entitled “Cybersecurity for the Clinician.” The video series provides...

Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks Continue to Increase in Healthcare

by Jill McKeon

Behind the transportation and automotive industries, healthcare employees were the most likely to read and reply to malicious emails, falling victim to business email compromise (BEC) attacks, Abnormal...

How Northwell Health Runs Its Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Program

by Jill McKeon

When it comes to cybersecurity, costly technology and high-end tools can only get organizations so far. Implementing a robust and dynamic cybersecurity training and awareness program is crucial to reducing risk and establishing a culture...

Security Awareness and Training Crucial to Preventing Healthcare Phishing Attacks

by Jill McKeon

Healthcare phishing attacks are still a top cyberattack vector, but new research shows that consistent security awareness and training can greatly reduce the likelihood of a successful attack. KnowBe4...

Employee Cyber Hygiene Is Critical to Healthcare Cybersecurity

by Jill McKeon

Proper employee cyber hygiene is crucial to maintaining healthcare cybersecurity, a new report conducted by the Center for Generational Kinetics (CGK) and commissioned by Mobile Mentor suggested. A...

Healthcare Employee Cybersecurity Training is Lacking, Report Finds

by Jill McKeon

Thorough and frequent employee cybersecurity training can ensure enterprise-wide security and prevent cyberattacks, while poor and infrequent training can leave an organization’s network...

Critical Infrastructure Attacks: Threat Landscape Forces Security to Evolve

by Jessica Davis

Over the last year, there’s been a decided shift in the threat landscape in terms of impact and frequency. From crippling outages at Colonial Pipeline and Scripps Health, to the rise in double...

Ransomware Keeps Healthcare in Crosshairs, Triple Extortion Emerges

by Jessica Davis

The rate of ransomware attacks seen across the globe so far in 2021 has increased by 102 percent, when compared to the same period in 2020. A new Check Point report also revealed nefarious hackers are...

External Threat Actors Outpace Insiders in Healthcare Data Breaches

by Jessica Davis

For the second consecutive year, external threat actors caused the majority of healthcare data breaches in 2020, compared to just 39 percent caused by insiders, either inadvertently or...

PA Health Dept Sued; Investigation Looms, After Contact Tracing Breach

by Jessica Davis

The Pennsylvania Department of Health and its third-party contractor Insight Global have been sued, after reports that its COVID-19 contact tracing app exposed the sensitive data of at least 72,000...

Healthcare’s Email Problem: Insider Threats, Data Retention, Phishing

by Jessica Davis

Reports consistently highlight the risk of vulnerability exploits and ransomware to healthcare. But email is often the key access point in these attacks, through phishing and stolen credentials. As insiders remain a leading threat,...

Health CIO: IT Must Be Core Business Element to Tackle Security Challenges

by Jessica Davis

If healthcare hopes to overcome cybersecurity challenges and inefficiencies, the overall security posture must evolve by building a strong foundation around cybersecurity that advocates for...

COVID-19 Vaccine Cold Chain Entities Remain Key Spear-Phishing Target

by Jessica Davis

Threat actors are continuing to target the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain, the means of delivering and storing vaccines at safe temperatures, with spear-phishing campaigns that leverage pharma and...

VA Health Records Protocols Probed, Following Sexual Harassment Reports

by Jessica Davis

A group of 50 Congressional members sent a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, after multiple reports of sexual harassment claims made by women veterans and employees....

Attackers Target Medical Research Staff with Credential Phishing Attacks

by Jessica Davis

Senior medical research personnel in the US and Israel are being targeted by a credential phishing campaign launched by a nation-state hacking group with ties to Iran, according to a new Proofpoint...

Pharmacy, Hospital Phishing Attacks Spike 189% Amid Vaccine Rollout

by Jessica Davis

The number of phishing attacks targeting pharmacies and hospitals increased by 189 percent from December 2020 to February. These often large-scale campaigns correlated to hackers attempting to...

FBI Alerts to Rise in BEC Cyberattacks on US Orgs, Impacting Resources

by Jessica Davis

The FBI recently warned private sector entities that cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging business email compromise attacks against federal government agencies, which has hindered...

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