Humana and Cotiviti reached a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit over an insider data breach that occurred in 2020. Settlement members are entitled to file claims for up to $250 for ordinary...
More healthcare organizations are engaging with healthcare cybersecurity and data privacy consulting vendors to help mitigate risk and avoid the numerous repercussions of healthcare cyberattacks, data...
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) alerted the healthcare sector to the rising prominence of Karakurt ransomware group. The group has claimed responsibility for at least four...
From 2009 to June 2022, organizations reported nearly 5,000 healthcare data breaches to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) data breach portal, researchers at Comparitech found. The breaches impacted...
In the past year, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has observed an uptick in vishing attacks, or "voice phishing," a recent analyst note revealed. Vishing...
Apple released security updates to defend against two zero-day vulnerabilities found in macOS Monterey, iOS and iPadOS, and Safari, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)...
Florida Orthopaedic Institute (FOI), also known as Musculoskeletal Institute, reached a $4 million proposed settlement over a 2020 data breach. The breach was the fifth-largest of 2020 and impacted...
North Carolina-based Novant Health notified 1.3 million patients that the use of Meta pixel code potentially led to unauthorized disclosure of protected health information (PHI). As previously...
Zero trust adoption is gaining significant traction in the healthcare sector this year, Okta discovered in its latest report on the state of zero trust security.
In Okta’s 2021 report, just 37...
US Senator Angus King (I-ME) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), both co-chairs of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), wrote a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra asking about the...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) warned the healthcare sector of a new phishing scheme that lures recipients to an Evernote site containing a downloadable Trojan file that...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint cybersecurity advisory to alert critical infrastructure to the dangers of...
Dental Care Alliance (DCA) reached a $3 million proposed settlement over a December 2020 healthcare cyberattack that lasted for one month and impacted 1 million patients and employees. DCA is a...
In its latest analyst note, the HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) outlined internet of things (IoT) security risks and mitigation tactics.
“Today, there are about 7...
In a recent settlement, California-based Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System (SVMHS) agreed to pay up to $340,000 to class members impacted by a 2020 healthcare data breach.
According to a...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provided insight on the top malware threats of 2021 in its latest advisory. Co-authored by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the...
In the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) “Shields Up” notice following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the agency recommended that organizations go back to...
Nearly 80 percent of 517 survey respondents did not consider their organization’s IoT and IoMT cybersecurity activities to be mature, research conducted by Cynerio and the Ponemon Institute...
Meta is facing another lawsuit over its health data privacy practices. As previously reported, a report co-published by The Markup and STAT alleged that Meta (the parent company of Facebook)...
IoT malware attacks in healthcare are becoming increasingly common, especially as connected health adoption continues to increase and threat actors find nontraditional attack vectors to...
