Security Breaches October 21, 2016 New Tool Allows Windows Users to Protect Against Master Boot Record Attacks Researchers from Talos team at Cisco Systems have released a new tool that can protect against master boot record attacks on Windows computers that are ... Read more
Security Breaches October 21, 2016 Weebly Data Breach Impacts 43 Million Customers A massive Weebly data breach has been uncovered that impacts 43,430,316 customers who have previously created websites using the drag and drop website creation platform. ... Read more
Trends & Reports October 20, 2016 EHNAC Migrates HIPAA Privacy and Security Modules to HITRUST CSF Framework The two leading standards development associations – the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) and the Health Information Trust Alliance HITRUST – have announced they ... Read more
Compliance October 20, 2016 Fall in Price of Health Data Likely to Mean Healthcare Cyberattacks Supply of healthcare data is outstripping demand which has led to a drop in the price of health data on the darknet, according to studies ... Read more
Security Breaches October 20, 2016 2012 LinkedIn Data Breach: Suspect Arrested in Prague The 2012 LinkedIn data breach was one of the largest ever reported. More than 117 million user credentials were stolen in the attack. This year ... Read more
Compliance October 19, 2016 $2.14 Million St. Joseph Health HIPAA Settlement Announced The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has agreed to a $2.14 million St. Joseph Health HIPAA settlement after a ... Read more
Security Breaches October 18, 2016 Rainbow Children’s Clinic Ransomware Attack Announced A recent Rainbow Children’s Clinic ransomware attack has resulted in the protected health information of patients being encrypted and made inaccessible to pediatricians and other ... Read more
Security Breaches October 18, 2016 CalOptima Data Breach Announced: 56K Members Impacted A second CalOptima data breach has been announced just a few weeks after 1,000 members were informed that some of their protected health information had ... Read more
Tools & Practices October 18, 2016 St. Jude Medical Forms Advisory Board to Improve Device Security St. Jude Medical, a medical device manufacturer that was recently accused of allowing security vulnerabilities to persist that placed device users at risk from cyberattacks, ... Read more
Compliance October 17, 2016 Healthcare Lawyers Increasingly Involved in Cybersecurity Matters A recent survey conducted by Bloomberg Law and the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) asked more than 300 healthcare attorneys from across the United States ... Read more
Compliance October 16, 2016 59% of Organizations Use Multi-Factor Authentication to Secure Assets A recent survey conducted by the access management company SecureAuth has shown the use of multi-factor authentication to secure data is increasing in popularity, although ... Read more
Compliance October 15, 2016 Saint Francis Health System Alerts Patients to Warren Clinic Data Breach Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Saint Francis Health System has experienced a cyberattack that has resulted in the theft of patient data. The incident does not impact all ... Read more
Compliance October 15, 2016 Integrity Transitional Hospital Hack Impacts Multiple Healthcare Providers Denton, Texas-based Integrity Transitional Hospital has notified patients, many of whom are children, that some of their protected health information has potentially been viewed and ... Read more
Security Breaches October 14, 2016 Ransomware Threat Not Understood by 60% Office Employees in the U.S. According to Symantec, ransomware attacks are now being conducted at a rate of 4,000 a day, yet a recent survey has shown that six out ... Read more
Security Breaches October 13, 2016 Massive Amazon Data Breach? Just a Precautionary Password Reset Apparently Rumors have been circulating that a massive Amazon data breach had occurred following the decision by the online retail giant to reset the passwords of ... Read more
Security Breaches October 13, 2016 Confidence in Data Breach Preparedness Found to be Lacking According to a recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the vast majority of companies now have a data breach response plan in place, yet ... Read more
Compliance October 13, 2016 Apria Healthcare Data Breach Discovered A recently discovered Apria Healthcare data breach has been discovered which has impacted 1,987 patients. the security breach has resulted in the exposure of a ... Read more
Compliance October 13, 2016 Peachtree Orthopedics Discovers Patient Database has been Hacked Peachtree Orthopedics has announced a hacker gained access to a patient database containing names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, treatment codes, prescription records, and ... Read more
Cyber Threats October 12, 2016 Warning Issued About Hurricane Matthew Phishing Scams US-CERT has issued warning about a spate of Hurricane Matthew phishing scams as cybercriminals attempt to defraud users and infect computers by taking advantage of ... Read more
Trends & Reports October 12, 2016 Increase in IT Support Scams Reported by ESET According to a recent report from ESET, IT support scams are on the increase with users in France, Canada, the U.S. and UK currently most ... Read more
Security Breaches October 12, 2016 2016 Ransomware Trends Analyzed by BitSight A new report on 2016 ransomware trends has recently been released by security firm BitSight. For the report, BitSight researchers analyzed 2016 ransomware trends across ... Read more
Security Breaches October 11, 2016 Virlock Ransomware Capable of Spreading via Cloud Sync Virlock Ransomware has been around since 2014; however, the latest version of the file-encrypting malware has a host of new capabilities making it even more ... Read more
Tools & Practices October 11, 2016 Microsoft Patching Policy for Windows 7 and 8.1 Now Updated Changes have been applied to the Microsoft patching policy for Windows 7 and 8.1. From Tuesday October 11, patches for both operating systems will now ... Read more
Cyber Threats October 11, 2016 StrongPity Malware Masquerades as WinRAR and TrueCrypt Installers Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new malware named StrongPity which is being spread via bogus WinRAR and TrueCrypt installers. Infection with StrongPity malware ... Read more
Compliance October 11, 2016 5 Critical Flaws and 5 Zero Days Fixed This Patch Tuesday Microsoft has issued ten bulletins this Patch Tuesday, which fix five new zero days and five critical vulnerabilities. In contrast to previous Patch Tuesdays, older ... Read more
Tools & Practices October 10, 2016 IoT Device Security Guidelines Issued by Cloud Security Alliance The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released a set of IoT device security guidelines to help developers build stronger security controls into their devices. Many ... Read more
Security Breaches October 10, 2016 Chinese Firm Blamed for Massive DDoS Attacks Last month, the first recorded 1-Terabyte Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack was recorded. The attack involved a massive botnet called Mirai, which consisted of ... Read more
Trends & Reports October 10, 2016 Sophos Recognized as Leader in Network Security by Gartner Security software and hardware company Sophos has recently been recognized as a leader in the field of threat management by American research and advisory firm ... Read more
Security Breaches October 10, 2016 NHS Ransomware Attacks Have Increased by 400% Attacks on healthcare organizations in the United States have increased sharply this year, but the country is not alone: In the UK, NHS ransomware attacks ... Read more
Security Breaches October 7, 2016 Zero-Day WinRAR Vulnerability is Simply a New Attack Vector In late September, news surfaced of a new zero-day WinRAR vulnerability affecting the latest version (WinRAR 5.21) of the software. If exploited, users would risk ... Read more