Tools & Practices March 28, 2017 FBI Warns Healthcare Providers of Risk of Using Anonymous FTP Servers Healthcare organizations could be placing the protected health information of patients at risk by using anonymous FTP servers, according to a recent alert issued by ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 28, 2017 Ironscales Announces New Partnership with Check Point to Improve Detection and Remediation of Email Security Threats Ironscales has announced it has partnered with Check Point Software Technologies Ltd and will be integrating its innovative IronTraps™ anti-phishing solution with Check Points’ Sand ... Read more
Trends & Reports March 27, 2017 Roger Severino to Lead OCR’s HIPAA Enforcement Efforts The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has a new Director to lead its HIPAA enforcement efforts. Late last week, the ... Read more
Compliance March 24, 2017 Med Center Health Data Breach Impacts 160,000 Patients The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a major Med Center Health data breach that impacts many affiliates and around 160,000 patients. The Med Center ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 24, 2017 US-Certs Says SSL Inspection Tools May Actually Weaken Cybersecurity SSL inspection tools are commonly used by healthcare providers to improve security; however, according to a recent warning issued by US-CERT, SSL inspection tools may ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 24, 2017 Cybersecurity Tips for Healthcare Providers Offered by WEDI The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has published a white paper offering cybersecurity tips for healthcare providers to help them ensure the sensitive protected ... Read more
Trends & Reports March 24, 2017 DivvyCloud Included in SPROCKIT Class of 2017 The media and entertainment industry has embraced the use of cloud infrastructure and is leveraging the cloud to deliver a vast range of digital content ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 23, 2017 FittedCloud Enhances its EC2 and EBS Optimization Solutions FittedCloud has announced its cloud cost optimization solution for AWS has benefitted from an upgrade with new machine-learning algorithms added to the solution, enhanced reports, ... Read more
Security Breaches March 23, 2017 Should There be a Criminal Investigation of a HIPAA Breach Involving an Employee? A criminal investigation of a HIPAA compliance breach is launched when health data are stolen for malicious purposes, but what about cases involving curious employees? ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 22, 2017 GFI Software Launches OneConnect Advanced Email Protection, Continuity, and Archiving Solution GFI Software has launched two new software systems to give sysadmins much better protection from sophisticated cyberattacks. The past 12 months has seen an increase ... Read more
Compliance March 21, 2017 Doctor Sanctioned Over Social Media HIPAA Violations A San Antonio, TX-based doctor has been sanctioned by the Texas Medical Board for social media HIPAA compliance violations after retaliating against a patient by ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 21, 2017 Medical Records of 26 Million Healthcare Patients at Risk of Compromise An IT system used by around 2,700 medical practices in the United Kingdom potentially allows the medical records of patients to be accessed by unauthorized ... Read more
Compliance March 20, 2017 Insider Healthcare Data Breaches Soar in February February saw a major increase in insider healthcare data breaches, according to the latest healthcare data breach report from Protenus. The February Breach Barometer report ... Read more
Compliance March 16, 2017 IDC Names Fortinet Leader in Email Security for FortiMail In its Marketscape: Worldwide Email Security 2016 Vendor Assessment, the global marketing intelligence company IDC has named Fortinet’s FortiMail a Leader in Email Security. The ... Read more
Security Breaches March 16, 2017 PetrWrap Used for Targeted Ransomware Attacks on Businesses Petya ransomware has been hijacked and is being used in ransomware attacks on businesses without the ransomware authors’ knowledge. The criminals behind the new PetrWrap ... Read more
Security Breaches March 15, 2017 Data Breach Notification Laws in New Mexico Passed by Senate Committee There are currently no data breach notification laws in New Mexico, but that is likely to change soon. New Mexico is one of three states ... Read more
Trends & Reports March 14, 2017 Cloudability Purchase of Cloud Manager Expands its Operations in Australasia Cloudability has expanded its customer base in Australia and New Zealand with the acquisition of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner Cloud Manager. Brisbane-based Cloud ... Read more
Security Breaches March 14, 2017 Device Theft Highlights Importance of Encrypting HIPAA-Covered Data Encrypting HIPAA-covered data is not mandatory. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act does cover the use of encryption to safeguard the protected health information ... Read more
Trends & Reports March 14, 2017 New Security Framework for Small Healthcare Providers A security framework for small healthcare providers has been released by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST). The security framework is a revised version of ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 10, 2017 Actively Exploited Apache Struts Vulnerability Discovered The discovery of a new Apache Struts vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild has prompted both Cisco Talos and Apache to issue ... Read more
Compliance March 10, 2017 AHIMA Helps Covered Entities Prepare for a HIPAA Compliance Audit The American Health Information Management Association has released a new toolkit to help covered entities prepare for a HIPAA compliance audit. The Department of Health ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 10, 2017 Expanded Awareness Video Campaigns to be Showcased by Wombat Security at the SXSW Conference Wombat Security Technologies will be showcasing a new addition to its Awareness Video Campaigns at this month’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference. The Awareness Video ... Read more
Trends & Reports March 10, 2017 Wombat Security Included in Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training Gartner Inc., has included Wombat Security Technologies in its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training. This is the third consecutive year than the ... Read more
Compliance March 10, 2017 Sophos Recognized as ‘Best Technology Company’ at PLC Awards The PLC Awards program has been running for the past 31 years and recognizes outstanding achievements made by UK companies. The awards program is not ... Read more
Security Breaches March 8, 2017 Importance of Internal Audits of PHI Access Logs Highlighted by Recent HIPAA Breach The importance of conducting internal audits of PHI access logs has been highlighted by a recent HIPAA breach discovered by Chadron Community Hospital in Nebraska. ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 8, 2017 Guidance on Cyber Threats Issued to Healthcare Organizations by OCR The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights has issued new guidance on cyber threats, advising HIPAA-covered entities to obtain the ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 7, 2017 Powershell Remote Access Trojan Uses DNS for 2-Way Communications with C2 Server A new Powershell remote access Trojan has been identified by researchers at Cisco Talos. The memory-resident malware does not write any files to the hard ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 7, 2017 Spotinst and RightScale Partnership Helps Customers Automate Use of EC2 Spot Instances A new Rightscale and Spotinst partnership has been announced, which will see the Spotinst Elastigroup AWS spot instance management platform integrated into RightScale’s universal cloud ... Read more
Compliance March 3, 2017 HIPAA Noncompliance Penalties Likely to Increase The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights is expected to issue more HIPAA noncompliance penalties over the coming year. While OCR ... Read more
Compliance March 3, 2017 New Simplified HITRUST CSF for Small Healthcare Providers This week, HITRUST announced it has created a new, simplified HITRUST CSF for small healthcare providers to help them with their compliance and risk management ... Read more