December 30, 2016 New Hampshire Hospital Data Breach Result of Human Error A recent New Hampshire Hospital data breach has resulted in the disclosure of the protected health information of 15,000 patients. The Department of Health and ... Read more
December 22, 2016 63% Increase in Healthcare Data Breaches in 2016 There has been a 63% increase in major healthcare data breaches in 2016, according to the 2016 Healthcare Cyber Breach Report from cybersecurity firm TrapX. ... Read more
December 16, 2016 November 2016 Breach Barometer Report: Worst Month for Health Data Breaches The November 2016 Breach Barometer Report from Protenus provides a snapshot of the state of healthcare data security, cataloging the health data breaches that occurred ... Read more
December 16, 2016 Agari’s Chief Scientist Helps Organizations Understand Social Engineering Based Scams Criminals have been using social engineering techniques for centuries to con victims into handing over their hard-earned money. However, cybercriminals are now using advanced social ... Read more
December 14, 2016 Arkansas Sherriff’s Office Pays 3 Bitcoin Ransom to Unlock Files The cybercriminals behind a ransomware attack on an Arkansas Sherriff’s office have been paid 3 Bitcoin ($2,400) to supply the keys to decrypt files locked ... Read more
December 13, 2016 Windows XP Use Places 90% of UK Hospitals at Risk of Cyberattack Hospitals throughout the United Kingdom are still using the outdated, unsupported, and unpatched Windows XP release, even though by doing so they are placing their ... Read more
November 28, 2016 Cloudyn Launches Two New Cloud Cost Management Services Cloudyn, the leading provider of hybrid and multi-cloud cost management and optimization solutions, has announced it has launched a new cost optimization tool called CloudynDex ... Read more
November 28, 2016 Batchly and Cloudability Announce New Strategic Partnership Batchly and Cloudability, two providers of solutions that help businesses optimize and reduce their cloud spending have announced a new strategic partnership. The new partnership ... Read more
November 23, 2016 Wombat Security Technologies Named as Finalist for a 2017 SC Media Award Wombat Security Technologies has been named as a finalist for a prestigious 2017 SC Media Award, in recognition for the quality of the company’s product ... Read more
November 18, 2016 What are the Highest Risk IoT Devices for Enterprises? Internet-connected devices can introduce considerable security risks, but what are the highest risk IoT devices for enterprises? According to a new report from cloud-based information ... Read more
November 18, 2016 October Breach Barometer Shows Hacking and Malware Main Causes of Healthcare Data Breaches Protenus has released its October Breach Barometer – a snapshot of healthcare data breaches that were reported last month. The report is a useful tool ... Read more
November 15, 2016 Patients Informed of Seguin Dermatology Ransomware Attack Patients have been warned of a Seguin Dermatology ransomware attack that may have resulted in their electronic protected health information being accessed by the attackers. ... Read more
November 15, 2016 Cybercriminals Calling Customer Service Reps to Convince them to Open Infected Email Attachments Training employees not to open file attachments send from unknown email accounts can help to prevent malware and ransomware infections. However, a well known cybercriminal ... Read more
November 11, 2016 UK Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Soar The healthcare industry in the United States has been targeted by cybercriminals using ransomware; however, UK healthcare ransomware attacks are also on the rise. So ... Read more
November 11, 2016 New Business Email Compromise Scam Tactics Uncovered There are a variety of business email compromise tactics that are used by scammers to convince executives to make fraudulent wire transfers. However, a security ... Read more
November 4, 2016 Infosec Institute Makes TrainingIndustry.com’s Top 20 List for 6 Years in a Row The Elmwood Park, IL-based Infosec Institute is an accelerated IT training school founded in 1998. The company has trained more than 45,000 individuals through 99 ... Read more
October 27, 2016 Hacktivist Indicted for Hospital DDoS Attacks DDoS attacks rarely result in prosecution; however, this week the hacktivist allegedly behind a series of major hospital DDoS attacks in 2014 has been indicted ... Read more
October 27, 2016 Emergency Flash Player Update Issued to Address Critical Flaw An emergency Flash Player update has been issued by Adobe to plug a critical vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild. The flaw ... Read more
October 26, 2016 Cisco Email Security Appliance Flaws Patched On Wednesday this week, updated software was released to address nine Cisco email security appliance flaws. Cisco has not uncovered any evidence to suggest that ... Read more
October 25, 2016 Healthcare Industry at Risk from More than 200 Ransomware Families Healthcare ransomware attacks have increased dramatically in 2016, and so has the number of threats. While healthcare organizations work hard at improving their defenses to ... Read more
October 25, 2016 Warning Issued on Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Installer A fake Microsoft Security Essentials installer is being used by scammers to fool users into calling a bogus tech support team. The fake Microsoft Security ... Read more
October 21, 2016 Healthcare Data Breaches Occurring at an Alarming Rate Healthcare data breaches are increasing at the year goes on, according to the latest Breach Barometer report from Protenus. As if the breach tally for ... Read more
October 21, 2016 Critical VeraCrypt Flaws Patched: Users Urged to Upgrade Critical VeraCrypt flaws that were recently uncovered by cybersecurity firm QuarksLab have now been patched in version 1.19 of the popular full-disk encryption software. Users ... Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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