The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an alert for all sectors, warning of a resurgence in sophisticated cyberattacks leveraging the...
The majority of Microsoft Exchange Servers have yet to be updated with a patch for a critical memory corruption vulnerability reported earlier this year, according to Rapid7. These...
Universal Health Services, one of the largest US health systems, confirmed on October 3 that the ransomware attack reported last week has affected all of its US care sites and hospitals, spurring...
Hackers have leveraged the COVID-19 public health crisis to improve the sophistication and increase the frequency of attacks. Specifically, email phishing that targets enterprise...
The US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory on the potential sanction risks associated with companies that facilitate ransomware...
A multi-state coalition made up of 44 states and Washington, D.C reached a $39.5 million settlement with Anthem, to resolve breach claims stemming from the...
The ransomware hackers behind the massive Blackbaud ransomware attack and subsequent data breach likely had access to more unencrypted data than previously disclosed, including bank account...
From October 2019 to July 2020, Microsoft data shows hackers have rapidly improved the sophistication and increased the frequency of cyberattacks. And when it comes to incident response...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has urged all organizations to apply the partial patch and to implement mitigation methods for a...
Universal Health Services is currently recovering from a ransomware attack across its 400 locations, with facilities leveraging back-up processes and paper documentation to...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights settled with Premera Blue Cross for $6.85 million and a corrective action plan, after an audit into the insurer’s...
Many healthcare providers struggle with finding and retaining security staff, as well as budget constraints, which make it difficult to properly secure the enterprise. In...
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) published the second release of its Supply Chain Cybersecurity Risk Management guide...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights reached a $2.3 million settlement with CHSPSC, which provides services to hospitals and...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released an alert warning of...
Only 44 percent of healthcare organizations, including hospitals and health systems, adhere to NIST cybersecurity framework standards, despite a drastic increase in healthcare data breaches in recent...
A group of Democratic Senators led by Jon Tester, D-Montana, is demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs after a reported data breach that impacted the personal and...
The Office for Civil Rights reached a settlement with the Athens Orthopedic Clinic for $1.5 million over a 2016 data breach caused by the notorious hacking group...
The patients impacted by two separate data breaches of Assured Imaging and BJC Healthcare have filed lawsuits against the providers, alleging security failings were behind...
The number of successful ransomware attacks declined amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but security leaders warned hacking groups have not ceased the barrage of attacks on...
