Third-party vendor, Dental Care Alliance, recently began notifying hundreds of its clients that a near-monthlong system hack potentially breached the protected health information and payment card...
Several health IT industry stakeholder groups have issued support of legislation recently passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The proposed HR 7898 bill would require the Department...
The Office for Civil Rights urges all healthcare organizations to review a Department of Homeland Security alert, warning of ongoing global supply-chain cyberattacks. Nation-state actors trojanized...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an alert, warning healthcare organizations of serious vulnerabilities found in certain MedTronic MyCareLink...
New reports from Armorblox and KnowBe4 show threat actors are continuing to prey on fears around the global COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging lures designed to increase the likelihood of success....
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights released a set of proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which take aim at Right of Access rules and are designed to reduce...
Data on the first authorized COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech has been breached after a successful, targeted cyberattack on the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a regulatory agency, EMA,...
Cybersecurity proved to be a massive challenge for many in the healthcare sector in 2020 as providers worked to combat the COVID-19 crisis, while simultaneously being pummeled with targeted...
GBMC HealthCare in Maryland is currently operating under planned EHR downtime procedures, after falling victim to a ransomware attack on Sunday, December 6.
The malware infected its IT systems,...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning all hospitals and other healthcare delivery organizations of an authentication flaw found in...
The NSA released an alert that warns all organizations to apply recommended mitigation measures for a vulnerability found in certain VMWare Workspace platforms. Nation-state actors with ties to Russia...
A new Forescout Research Labs report disclosed a set of 33 vulnerabilities found in four open source TCP/IP stacks, foundational elements of millions of IT and IoT devices, including those in...
A proposed $4.2 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed against Kalispell Regional Healthcare (KRH) and the 130,000 patients affected by a monthslong data breach reported by...
The FBI recently released a joint Private Industry Notification, warning organizations that hackers are actively abusing email auto-forwarding on web-based email clients during business email...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an alert, urging COVID-19 vaccine supply chain organizations to review a new IBM X-Force report...
Hospitals, health systems, and other providers should reassess their security posture in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has increased the number of cyber risks within the sector, such as...
Researchers from Bishop Fox Labs discovered four vulnerabilities in the OpenClinic application, an open-source health records management software, which could allow an attacker to read patient...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency recently released an alert, warning all private sector organizations of a vulnerability found in certain Fortinet devices...
Nation-state threat actors with ties to North Korea allegedly launched a phishing campaign against AstraZeneca in an effort to gain access to the pharma giant’s systems via malware,...
The FBI released an alert warning of a new cybercriminal campaign that spoofs the internet domains and email addresses related to the FBI, which poses the risk of future cyberattacks and other...
