January 3, 2020 Three-Year Insider Breach Discovered at North Ottawa Community Health System North Ottawa Community Health System (NOCH) has become aware that a staff member at North Ottawa Community Hospital in Grand Haven, MI, viewed the medical ... Read more
December 27, 2019 Critical Flaw Affecting 80,000 Businesses Patched by Citrix A critical vulnerability in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway has been patched by Citrix. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated ... Read more
December 19, 2019 Preinstalled Acer and Asus Software Contains Privilege Escalation Flaws SafeBreach has discovered vulnerabilities in software preinstalled on Acer and Asus laptops and computers which could be exploited by hackers to execute malicious payloads with ... Read more
December 13, 2019 The Cancer Center of Hawaii Delayed Radiation Therapy for Patients Due to Ransomware Attack A ransomware attack took place, on November 5, 2019, on the Cancer Center of Hawaii in Oahu. The attack meant that the Cancer Center to ... Read more
December 13, 2019 $85,000 HIPAA Right of Access Failures Results in Financial Penalty for Korunda Medical The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has revealed its second enforcement action as part of its HIPAA Right of Access ... Read more
December 13, 2019 Zeppelin Ransomware Used to Attack MSPs, Technology, and Healthcare Companies Security researchers at Blackberry Cylance have identified a new variant of Buran ransomware which is being used in targeted attacks on technology and healthcare companies ... Read more
December 12, 2019 80,000 Patients of Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Impacted in Ransomware Attack Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (SEMOMS) has made it public that a ransomware may have impacted the protected health information of almost 80,000 patients. ... Read more
December 12, 2019 Sunrise Community Health and Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital Suffer Phishing Attacks Evans, CO-based Sunrise Community Health has learned that the email accounts of several staff members were compromised due to employees responding to phishing emails. The ... Read more
December 9, 2019 HIPAA Compliance for Amazon Lex Amazon has revealed that the Amazon Lex chatbot service now supports HIPAA compliance and can be used by healthcare groups without breaching Health Insurance Portability ... Read more
December 4, 2019 Privacy Protections for Consumer Health Data to be Enhanced by Smartwatch Data Act Sens. Bill Cassidy, M.D., (R-Louisiana) and Jacky Rosen, (D-Nevada) have introduced the Stop Marketing And Revealing The Wearables And Trackers Consumer Health (Smartwatch) Data Act. ... Read more
December 4, 2019 Sentara Hospitals Agrees to $2.175M HIPAA Settlement for Breach Notification Rule and BAA Failures The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued its eighth HIPAA financial penalty of 2019. Sentara Hospitals has agreed ... Read more
November 30, 2019 Timothy Noonan Revealed as New Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy at Office for Civil Rights The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has appointed Timothy Noonan Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy. The position of ... Read more
November 25, 2019 37 Vulnerabilities Identified in Popular Virtual Networking Computing Applications Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have identified 37 vulnerabilities in popular Virtual Network Computing (VNC) applications, some of which are critical and could allow access to ... Read more
November 24, 2019 Ransomware Attack Impacts 107,000 Ferguson Medical Group Patients Saint Francis Healthcare System has revealed that the computer network of Ferguson Medical Group has been hit by a ransomware attack. The attack took place ... Read more
November 10, 2019 Mimecast Moves into New 79,000 Sq. ft Central London Headquarters Mimecast has announced it has now opened its new London HQ in 1 Finsbury Avenue in Broadgate. The company has moved to its new 79,000 ... Read more
October 30, 2019 Kalispell Regional Healthcare Contacts 140,209 Patients About Phishing Attack Kalispell Regional Healthcare, located in Montana, is currently getting in touch with around 140,000 patients that some of their protected health information (PHI) was potentially ... Read more
October 25, 2019 Range of HIPAA Breaches Result in $2.15 Million Civil Monetary Penalty for Jackson Health System The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has sanctioned a $2.15 million civil monetary penalty against the Miami, FL-located nonprofit academic ... Read more
October 23, 2019 Millions of Patients’ Sensitive Data Found to be Accessible via the Internet Due to the failure of nine companies to secure their medical databases, the sensitive health information of millions of patients has been exposed over the ... Read more
October 23, 2019 15,982 South Texas Dermatopathology Patients Contacted in Relation to AMCA Data Breach South Texas Dermatopathology is the most recent victim of the data breach at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) to make the breach known to the ... Read more
October 19, 2019 Shared Network Drives Expose Thousands of Veterans’ Records A report published by the Department of Veteran Affairs’ Office of Inspector General (VA OIG) audit has revealed that Internal Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) ... Read more
October 18, 2019 How Much Does Cisco Umbrella Cost? If you are looking for a content filtering solution that will protect your business from web-based threats, Cisco Umbrella will no doubt be one of ... Read more
October 11, 2019 Healthcare Data Breach Report for September 2019 Published 36 healthcare data breaches of more than 500 records were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, during September, ... Read more
October 9, 2019 Microsoft Patches 59 Vulnerabilities Including 9 Critical Flaws October 2019 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft patch 59 vulnerabilities in its products including 8 critical flaws and 1 critical security advisory about the latest ... Read more
October 8, 2019 PHI Disclosures on Yelp Lead to $10,000 Fine for Dental Practice The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has agreed to a HIPAA settlement for a violation case with Elite Dental Associates ... Read more
October 2, 2019 FDA Issues Warning over Urgent/11 Vulnerabilities in Component Used in Medical Devices The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and ICS-CERT have issued warnings about 11 vulnerabilities in a software component used in several operating systems and ... Read more
September 25, 2019 Adobe Fixes Critical Coldfusion Flaws Adobe has issued an out-of-band update for its web application platform Coldfusion which fixes two critical vulnerabilities and one important flaw. One of the critical ... Read more
September 23, 2019 Major Disruption to Patient Services at Campbell County Health due to Ransomware Attack Campbell County Health in Gillette, WY, has experienced a ransomware attack that has shut down hospital systems and is preventing access to patient data. The ... Read more
September 21, 2019 Flaws Discovered in WLAN Firmware Used by Philips IntelliVue Portable Patient Monitors Two flaws have been discovered in Philips IntelliVue WLAN firmware which impact certain IntelliVue MP monitors. The flaws could be exploited by hackers to download ... Read more
September 18, 2019 Phishing Attacks at Magellan Health Subsidiaries Impact 56,226 Presbyterian Health Plan Subscribers Magellan Health, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has revealed that discovered two of its subsidiaries have experienced phishing attacks that exposed the protected health information of ... Read more
September 11, 2019 Unsecured Online PACS Makes 400 Million Medical Images Freely Accessible Following a recently completed investigation by ProPublica, the German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, and vulnerability and analysis company, Greenbone Networks has stated that 24.3 million ... Read more