January 18, 2019 Zix to Acquire AppRiver for $275 Million The cloud cybersecurity company AppRiver is set to be purchased by the email encryption, threat protection, and email archiving solution provider Zix for $275 million. ... Read more
January 12, 2019 Ransomware Attack at Bobby Yee Podiatric Offices Affects 24,000 Patients The Podiatric Offices of Bobby Yee have been subjected to a ransomware which led to the encryption of files that included the protected health information ... Read more
January 8, 2019 AJMC Study: Following a Data Breach Hospitals’ Advertising Expenditure Rises 64% In a recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care Sung J. Choi, PhD and M. Eric Johnson, PhD looked into how advertising expenditures ... Read more
December 4, 2018 Webinar: Cost-Effective DNS-Based Web Filtering In order to protect against web-based threats such as malware, ransomware, viruses, exploit kits, malvertising, and phishing, businesses need to implement a web filtering solution. ... Read more
November 9, 2018 Q3 2018 Healthcare Data Breach Report Published A Q3 2018 healthcare data breach report from Protenus shows there has been a significant reduction in healthcare data breaches compared to the previous quarter. ... Read more
November 9, 2018 Eutelsat Chooses TitanHQ to Secure its WiFi Networks The leading European satellite operator Eutelsat has implemented a new Wi-Fi filtering solution to secure its Wi-Fi networks. Eutelsat is one of the world’s largest ... Read more
November 2, 2018 BleedingBit Vulnerabilities Affect Millions of Wireless Access Points Armis Labs has identified two vulnerabilities in Texas Instruments’ Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips that are used in wireless access points manufactured by Cisco, Meraki, ... Read more
October 26, 2018 75% of Employees Lack Security Awareness MediaPro has published its 2018 State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report which assesses the level of security awareness of employees across different industry sectors. ... Read more
October 4, 2018 Persistent New LoJax Rootkit Survives Hard Disk Replacement Security researchers at ESET have identified a new rootkit that takes persistence to a whole new level. Once infected, the LoJax rootkit will remain active ... Read more
August 20, 2018 38,000 Patient Health Records Exposed in Legacy Health Phishing Attack A phishing attack on the Portland, Oregon-based healthcare provider, Legacy Health, has resulted in the exposure and possible theft of 38,000 patients’ protected health information. ... Read more
August 19, 2018 SharePoint Files Used to Harvest Office 365 Credentials A phishing campaign termed PhishPoint uses SharePoint files to steal users’ Office 365 credentials. Huge numbers of phishing emails are being sent to businesses that ... Read more
August 17, 2018 Major Phishing Attack Reported by Augusta University Health Augusta University Health has experienced a phishing attack that has resulted in the unauthorized accessing of several employees’ email accounts. The substitute breach notice uploaded ... Read more
July 31, 2018 UnityPoint Health Phishing Attack Exposed PHI of 1.4 Million Patients Another UnityPoint Health phishing attack has been discovered, and this time it is huge. Hackers have gained access to multiple email accounts which contained the ... Read more
July 23, 2018 1.5 Million Health Records Breached in Singapore Hackers have successfully gained access to a health database of the Singapore government (SingHealth), allowing them to view the health records of 1.5 million individuals, ... Read more
July 23, 2018 AWS EC2 Pricing Options Explained Confused about AWS EC2 instance types and AWS EC2 pricing options? In this post we explain some of the ways that it is possible to ... Read more
June 13, 2018 Sophos Adds Deep Learning to Email Security Offering Sophos has announced a major update to its email security offering to help customers detect and block sophisticated new email threats. Sophos Email Security Advanced ... Read more
June 8, 2018 Emergency Update Issued by Adobe to Patch Critical 0-Day Flaw in Flash Player Adobe has released an emergency update that addresses an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Flash Player that is being used in targeted attacks on Windows ... Read more
May 28, 2018 Hackers Potentially Had Access to 42,000 Patients Health Data for a Month After Phishing Attack The Ohio Healthcare Provider Aultman Health Foundation has discovered some of its employees have been duped by a phishing attack that resulted in the threat ... Read more
May 18, 2018 PhishLabs Merges with BrandProtect PhishLabs, a leading provider of phishing threat intelligence and security awareness and anti-phishing training has announced it has merged with BrandProtect, a leading provider of ... Read more
May 17, 2018 Cisco Patches Critical Flaws in Digital Network Architecture Platform Cisco has releases patches to address vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited to gain full control of affected systems. Three of the vulnerabilities are rated ... Read more
May 5, 2018 Ironscales Announces Introduction of Non-Blocking Cloud-Native API Deployment Ironscales has announced its automated phishing defense platform can now be used to protect organizations without the need for any physical plugins, thanks to its ... Read more
April 24, 2018 Integrated Rehab Consultants Takes 16 Months to Notify Patients of PHI Breach Illinoie-based physiatry organization Integrated Rehab Consultants is broadcasting notification correspondence to some patients alerting them to the exposure of some of their protected health information, ... Read more
April 23, 2018 Des Moines Crisis Observation Center Discovers Inappropriate Dissemination of Patient Data 1,071 patients who were treated at the Des Moines Crisis Observation Center managed by Polk County Health Services Inc., have been contacted to advise them ... Read more
April 19, 2018 Misconfigured Security Settings Results in63,500 Middletown Medical Patients Having PHI Exposed A security setting that was not configured properly on a radiology system has lead to the patients’ protected health information of tens of thousands of ... Read more
April 18, 2018 Possible Abuse of Credit Card Details Affects 1,500 Baptist Health Patients A former worker at Baptist Health’s West Kendall Baptist Hospital based in Miami, FL illegally obtained the credit card details of patients and used the ... Read more
April 17, 2018 Multiple Staff Email Accounts Accessed in UnityPoint Health Phishing Attack It has been discovered that the email accounts of several employees of UnityPoint Health hhave been compromised and accessed by unauthorized people. Access to the staff ... Read more
April 16, 2018 Email Account Breach Impacts 4,000 Patients of Texas Health Resources Texas Health Resources is sending notifications to ‘fewer than 4,000 patients’ that some of their Private Health Information may have been seen by an unauthorized ... Read more
April 11, 2018 Arc of Erie County New York Reports 3,751 Patients’ PHI Was Exposed on Internet over 30-Month Period A provider of person-centered services to individuals with developmental disabilities, The Arc of Erie County New York (The Arc), has reported that two spreadsheets listing the ... Read more
April 2, 2018 Cambridge Health Alliance Advised of PHI Breach by Law Enforcement Massachusetts based Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) have been advised, by law enforcement agencies, that the protected health information of some of its clients has been found ... Read more
March 30, 2018 Clinical Pathology Laboratories Southeast Patients’ Have PHI Exposed Due to Theft of Unencrypted Laptop Clinical Pathology Laboratories Southeast, Inc., (CPLSE) has revealed that an unencrypted laptop computer issued to a member of staff has been stolen, exposing the protected ... Read more