Cyber Threats September 12, 2017 LinkedIn Phishing Scam Uses InMail and Personal Messages to Obtain Sensitive Information A new LinkedIn Phishing scam has been detected that uses compromised LinkedIn Premium accounts to send InMail messages and private messages to other LinkedIn users. ... Read more
Security Breaches September 10, 2017 Equifax Data Breach Affects 143 Million Consumers A massive Equifax data breach has resulted in the exposure, and possible theft, of 143 million American’s records, including highly sensitive data such as Social ... Read more
Cyber Threats September 7, 2017 90% of IT Professionals Most Concerned About Phishing, Spear Phishing and Whaling Phishing, spear phishing, and whaling attacks are the leading cause of concern for IT professionals in the United States, according to the latest Phishing Response ... Read more
Compliance September 7, 2017 DivvyCloud Secures $6 Million in Series A Funding The cloud automation and cost management platform provider DivvyCloud has secured $6 million in Series A Funding with the latest funding round led by RTP ... Read more
Tools & Practices September 6, 2017 SpamTitan Shortlisted for 2017 Computing Security Award TitanHQ’s anti-spam solution SpamTitan has been shortlisted for a 2017 Computing Security Award. The product was included in the list of finalists in the Best ... Read more
Compliance September 1, 2017 Kaleida Health Suffers Second Phishing Attack in Space of 2 Months Kaleida Health has announced an employee has fallen for a phishing scam that resulted in the protected health information of 744 patients being exposed, and ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 28, 2017 HIPAA Privacy Rule Violation Penalties Waived in Wake of Hurricane Harvey Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Tom Price has announced that certain HIPAA compliance violation penalties will be waived in the ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 28, 2017 DivvyCloud Platform Now Available for VMware Cloud on AWS The DivvyCloud platform allows customers to consistently enforce policies across hybrid public and private cloud environments and ensure compliance and security of their cloud environments ... Read more
Insights August 22, 2017 HIPAA Encryption Requirements The HIPAA encryption requirements may only cover a few lines of the Security Rule, but – when complied with – they can significantly reduce the ... Read more
Cyber Threats August 21, 2017 Webroot Acquires Securecast and Starts Offering Anti-Phishing Training Webroot, a leading provider of endpoint security systems, has announced it has acquired Securecast – A provider of a fully automated security awareness training platform. ... Read more
Compliance August 19, 2017 Noncompliance With HIPAA: Costs for Healthcare Organizations Noncompliance with HIPAA can cost healthcare organizations dearly. If regulators discover willful violations of HIPAA Rules, multi-million-dollar fines are possible. Fines for Noncompliance with HIPAA ... Read more
Compliance August 17, 2017 Worldwide Cybersecurity Spending in 2017 to Exceed $86.4 Billion Gartner has released a new report predicting worldwide cybersecurity spending in 2017 will reach $86.4 billion. The information security market is now the fastest growing ... Read more
Tools & Practices August 17, 2017 NIST Revises Guidance on Passwords The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new guidance on passwords. It is standard practice to make passwords stronger by using a ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 16, 2017 Skeddly Develops Easy Workaround to Allow Cost Saving on Multi-AZ RDS Instances Amazon permits users to start and stop RDS instances to save costs when those instances are not in use. Stopping RDS instances when they are ... Read more
Cyber Threats August 15, 2017 HITRUST and Trend Micro Partnership to Improve Cyber Threat Xchange Capabilities The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has partnered with Trend Micro to form the HITRUST Cyber Threat Management and Response Center which will enhance the ... Read more
Compliance August 14, 2017 City of Hope Phishing Attack Impacts 3,400 Patients A recent City of Hope phishing attack has potentially resulted in the PHI of 3,400 patients being accessed by cybercriminals. City of Hope employees were ... Read more
Security Breaches August 8, 2017 Siemens CT and PET Scanners Vulnerable to Cyberattacks The Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued a warning about vulnerabilities in Siemens CT and PET scanner systems. ... Read more
Compliance August 7, 2017 U.S. Senate Passes Jessie’s Law Allowing Drug Histories to be Shared with Doctors Last week, the U.S. Senate passed new legislation – Jessie’s Law – that allows details of patients’ past drug abuse to be shared with physician’s ... Read more
Compliance August 3, 2017 Mid-Year Healthcare Data Breach Report Shows Insiders Pose the Biggest Data Breach Risk Protenus has released its mid-year healthcare data breach report. The Breach Barometer reports chart the data breaches experienced by healthcare organizations each month and include ... Read more
Compliance August 2, 2017 2,789 Patients’ PHI Compromised in Phishing Attack Kaleida Health has announced that a phishing attack has resulted in an email account being compromised, and along with it, the protected health information of ... Read more
Compliance August 1, 2017 47% of Healthcare Orgs Have Had a HIPAA Data Breach in the Past 24 Months A recent survey conducted by KMPG has revealed that 47% of healthcare organizations have experienced a HIPAA data breach in the past 24 months. The ... Read more
Insights August 1, 2017 OpenDNS Web Filter Review We start our OpenDNS web filter review by looking at how OpenDNS started, discussing what OpenDNS evolved into, and explaining the changes to its web ... Read more
Compliance August 1, 2017 Botmetric Raises $3 Million in Series A Funding Santa Clara, CA-based cloud management and optimization firm Botmetric has raised $3 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by the Draper ... Read more
Security Breaches July 31, 2017 Anthem Inc Announces 18,580 Record Data Breach Anthem Inc., has recently settled a class-action lawsuit filed by the victims of its 2015 data breach that saw 78.8 million health insurance records stolen ... Read more
Security Breaches July 27, 2017 Global Cyberattacks Boost Sophos Quarterly Results The British cybersecurity firm Sophos has announced its quarterly results, which were much improved in no small part due to the recent WannaCry and NotPetya ... Read more
Security Breaches July 25, 2017 Data Breach Reporting Tool Updated by OCR Following the passing of the HITECH Act in 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights developed its data breach reporting ... Read more
Compliance July 25, 2017 Model Patient Request for Health Information Form Issued by AHIMA A model patient request for health information form has been issued by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) that can be used by healthcare ... Read more
Tools & Practices July 25, 2017 RightScale Announces General Availability of its Optima Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Solution RightScale Optima, the collaborative cloud cost management and optimization platform for enterprises, has now been released and is generally available. The solution allows enterprises to ... Read more
Security Breaches July 21, 2017 ITRC Report Shows Hacking Continues to be the Main Cause of Data Breaches The main cause of data breaches in the United States is still hacking according to a new report released by the Identity Theft Resource Center ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 21, 2017 Cisco Reports Fall in Exploit Kit Activity but Increase in Malware Delivery Via Email Exploit kit activity has fallen, but there has been a notable rise in the use of email as a vector for delivering malware, according to ... Read more