Cybersecurity

Healthcare Providers Only Spent About 5 Percent of Their IT Budgets on Security Last Year - Gartner

A March 12, 2019, article by author, Mackenzie Garrity, in Becker's Hospital Review (in the Becker's Health IT & CIO Report), is entitled, "5% of hospital IT budgets go to cybersecurity despite 82% of hospitals reporting breaches".

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Building the best HIPAA contingency plan - From Modern Healthcare

April 5, 2018 -- An important article in the March 31, edition of Modern Healthcare, by author, Rachel Z.

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Intel® Responds to Security Research Findings

The following is the body of an email from Intel®, regarding findings of their security research--related to widely-publicized exploits that have created issues with computer chipsets, operating systems and other technologies. The content is reproduced in entirety with attribution, and contains helpful resources for further information about the vulnerabilities, and regarding proactive measures that can be taken to protect business systems.

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FBI Cybersecurity Expert Abagnale: Equifax 'Sloppiness' Caused Massive Breach - From CRN and

CRN reported yesterday (December 14), in the revealing article entitled, "FBI Cybersecurity Expert Abagnale: Equifax 'Sloppiness' Caused Massive Breach", by authors Steven Burke and Michael Novinson: "Frank Abagnale, an FBI cybersecurity specialist and identity fraud expert, told CRN that the massive breach at credit reporting

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10 biggest malware campaigns & high-profile cyberattacks of 2017 - Beckers Healthcare

An article in the December 5, 2017, edition of Becker's Healthcare ("Becker's Health IT and CIO Review"), by author, Julie Spitzer, was entitled, "10 biggest malware campaigns & high-profile cyberattacks of 2017".

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Malware Attacks in Healthcare Can Put Patient Safety at Risk

A breaking article in today's (November 6, 2017) edition of Modern Healthcare, by staff writer, Rachel Z. Arndt, is entitled, "Cybersecurity threats pose biggest healthcare hazard, ECRI reports". Arndt states in the article that, "according to a new report from the ECRI Institute...

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Hackers are ransoming 26,000 unsecured MongoDB databases, security researchers find - Healthcare IT News

An article by author, Jessica Davis, of HIMSS Media, in yesterday's (9/5/2017) edition of Healthcare IT News, entitled, "Hackers are ransoming 26,000 unsecured MongoDB databases, security researchers find", alerts readers about specific ransomware attacks throughout the end of last year "into early 2017".

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10 steps for a successful incident response plan - From CSO by IDG via Cisco

An article by leading security technology journalist, Doug Drinkwater, entitled, "10 steps for a successful incident response plan", appeared in June, on the CSO (by IDG) website.

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New Defray Ransomware Targeting US and UK Healthcare, Education, Manufacturing and Tech Sectors - IBT

An important article by author, India Ashok, entitled, "New Defray ransomware demands $5,000 from US and UK victims in highly customised attacks", appeared on August 26, on the International Business Times website. It identified a form of ransomware that, according to Ashok, "is using highly customised phishing emails to go after specific targets.

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Healthcare data breaches caused by hacks are on the rise - Critical information from Modern Healthcare

An article by Rachel Z.

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