Healthcare cybersecurity benchmarking data can help health IT experts make data-driven decisions, evaluate program effectiveness, and improve their organization’s overall security posture, a new...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its 2022 Year in Review, in which the agency reflected on what it accomplished in 2022 and what it hopes to achieve in 2023.
The...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center’s (HC3) latest brief outlines the tactics and exploitation techniques used by Royal ransomware and BlackCat ransomware, two threats that...
The number of ransomware attacks has dropped by more than 60 percent between 2021 to 2022, according to a survey conducted on Delinea's behalf by Censuswide.
The survey of over 300 respondents...
Cloud adoption has been on the rise in the healthcare sector for years for good reason as more organizations lean into digital transformation. According to Vantage Market Research, the healthcare...
Austin, Texas-based Bay Bridge Administrators (BBA) suffered a data security incident that impacted individuals enrolled in some employment insurance benefits administered by BBA in 2022.
On September...
Global cyberattacks increased by 38 percent in 2022 compared to 2021, new data from Check Point Research revealed. Healthcare was one of the three most attacked industries in 2022 according to Check...
More than 20 healthcare leaders have come together to form the Health 3rd Party Trust (Health3PT) Initiative and Council, aimed at introducing new standards, automated workflows, and assurance models...
Budget and capability constraints are contributing to persisting supply chain risk management challenges across the healthcare sector, a new survey conducted by Ponemon Institute on behalf of the...
Cybersecurity leaders are buckling up for rising costs, a challenging talent shortage, and uncertain data breach reporting requirements going into 2023, according to a Deepwatch Q4 2022 SecOps...
CentraState Healthcare System in New Jersey is experiencing an IT network issue that is impacting some of its patient services. The issue began on December 29.
Tom Scott, president and CEO of...
Although the group has been active since 2019, Clop ransomware appears to be shifting its tactics in ways that pose direct threats to the healthcare sector, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination...
The number of healthcare ransomware attacks more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, from 43 in 2016 to 91 in 2021, according to a study published recently in JAMA Health Forum.
The cohort study relied on...
Avalon Healthcare Management and Morley Companies each reached healthcare data breach settlements recently following large-scale data breaches. Lawsuits and state-level enforcement actions in the...
Arkansas-based Howard Memorial Hospital (HMH) began notifying patients of a healthcare data breach. On December 4, HMH discovered the suspicious activity and “allegations made by an unknown actor...
In late December, Louisiana-based Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) began notifying 269,752 individuals of a healthcare data breach. According to the notice, the breach occurred between...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued an analyst note about KillNet, a pro-Russian hacktivist group that is known to be a threat to the US healthcare sector. The group has...
HITRUST plans to release version 11 of its cybersecurity framework (CSF) in January with new and improved features for managing emerging cybersecurity threats and reducing certification efforts, the...
The House and Senate Appropriations Committees released the text of an omnibus appropriations bill that would keep the government funded through September 30, 2023. The document is more than 4,000...
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has signed an executive order aiming to protect infrastructure organizations from the overall increase in cybersecurity threats.
Led by the Secretary of the...