September 18, 2020 Ransomware Attack on Hospital Leads to the Death of a Patient A ransomware attack on a German hospital that took critical systems out of action and forced the cancellation of appointments and the temporary closure of ... Read more
September 16, 2020 Five OCR HIPAA Fines for HIPAA Right of Access Failures The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has recently agreed to settle five HIPAA compliance cases that were investigated after ... Read more
September 9, 2020 Adobe Patches 12 Critical Flaws in Experience Manager, InDesign, and Framemaker Adobe has released patches to correct 18 flaws on September 2020 Patch Tuesday. The flaws exist in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Framemaker. ... Read more
September 7, 2020 Microsoft Will End Support for Adobe Flash Player on January 1, 2020 Microsoft has announced that web browser support for Adobe Flash Player will end on January 1, 2021. Adobe Flash Player will no longer be distributed ... Read more
August 18, 2020 Northern Light Health Foundation Alerts 657,392 Donors About Blackbaud Ransomware Attack The Brewer, ME-based integrated healthcare group, Northern Light Health Foundation, has revealed it has been impacted by the recent ransomware attack on Blackbaud Inc. The ... Read more
August 18, 2020 Google to Add MitM Protection Mechanism to Chrome 86 Warning Users About Insecure Forms Google has announced that the Google Chrome browser will soon alert individuals about insecure forms on websites. Google is planning on rolling out the new ... Read more
August 11, 2020 Microsoft Fixes 120 Vulnerabilities on August 2020 Patch Tuesday, Including 17 Critical Flaws August 2020 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft release 120 patches covering 13 products and a Servicing Stack Update for Windows 10 advisory. 17 of the ... Read more
August 11, 2020 Adobe Fixes 26 Vulnerabilities Including 11 Critical Flaws Adobe has released patches to address 26 vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, including 11 flaws that have been rated critical. The critical flaws ... Read more
August 10, 2020 Phishing Attack Hits Children’s Hospital in Colorado Children’s Hospital Colorado is contacting 2,553 patients to inform them that some of their protected health information was held in an email account that was ... Read more
August 5, 2020 Online Shopping Scams Have Soared During the COVID-19 Pandemic There has been a major increase in online shopping scams during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent public service announcement by the FBI. Reports ... Read more
July 28, 2020 Rhode Island Health System Hit with $1 Million Fine for Noncompliance with HIPAA Rules The Rhode Island non-profit health system, Lifespan Health System Affiliated Covered Entity (Lifespan), has been fined $1,040,000 by the Department of Health and Human Services’ ... Read more
July 22, 2020 Out of Band Update Corrects 12 Critical Flaws in Adobe Photoshop, Prelude and Bridge Adobe has issued an out of band update to correct 12 critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Prelude, and Adobe Bridge, and an information disclosure ... Read more
July 14, 2020 Maximum Severity Flaw in SAP Could Allow Full Takeover of Enterprise System The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an alert about a critical vulnerability in the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ... Read more
July 14, 2020 Healthcare Fiscal Management Ransomware Attack Impacts Up to 58,000 People The Wilmington, NC-based provider of self-pay conversion and insurance eligibility services to hospitals, clinics and physician groups, Healthcare Fiscal Management Inc. (HFMI), has revealed that ... Read more
July 13, 2020 Zoom Fixes Zero-Day Legacy Windows RCE Flaw A zero-day vulnerability in the Zoom Windows client that could potentially allow remote code execution has now been patched by Zoom. The flaw only affected ... Read more
July 10, 2020 96% of Companies are Concerned About Public Cloud Security While most companies have adopted the public cloud and have moved at least some of their workloads or infrastructure to the cloud, confidence in cloud ... Read more
July 3, 2020 Portals Accessed Using Stolen Credentials of Health Plan Members Independence Blue Cross, AmeriHealth HMO, Inc. and AmeriHealth Insurance Company of New Jersey have discovered hackers obtained access to pages in their member portals between ... Read more
July 3, 2020 Critical Vulnerabilities Identified in Apache Guacamole Remote Access System Security researchers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Apache Guacamole remote access system used by thousands of companies to support home workers. Apache Guacamole is ... Read more
July 2, 2020 Microsoft Releases Out of Band Fixes for Two Serious Flaw in the Windows Codecs Library Microsoft has released an out of band update to correct two serious vulnerabilities in the Windows Codecs library, which, if exploited, could allow remote code ... Read more
June 18, 2020 Guidance Issued on Addressing Privacy and Security Risks for Telehealth Data in the Cloud The Cloud Security Alliance has published a new resource to help healthcare organizations address the privacy and security risks associated with the processing, storage, and ... Read more
June 17, 2020 Ripple20: Critical Vulnerabilities in Treck TCP/IP Stack Affect Hundreds of Millions of Devices A set of 19 vulnerabilities have been identified in the TCP/IP software library developed by Cincinnati-based Treck Inc., a developer of real-time embedded internet protocols ... Read more
June 15, 2020 Another Phishing Attack Impacts University of Utah Health University of Utah Health has been impacted by a new phishing attack, with the most recent attack leading to the exposure of the protected health ... Read more
June 11, 2020 June 23, 2020: MVP GrowthFest: Join Magic Johnson and Channel All-Stars at this Must Attend Virtual MSP Event Businesses in all industry sectors have faced difficult challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic and have had to make considerable changes in order to survive. ... Read more
June 7, 2020 Illegal Disposal of Patient Records Discovered by St Joseph Health System St Joseph Health System in North Central Indiana is contacting clients to inform them that a portion of protected health information has been breached and ... Read more
June 4, 2020 Zoom Patches Two Serious RCE Flaws and States E2E Encryption Will Not Be Available to Free Users Two high severity vulnerabilities in the Zoom videoconferencing platform have been identified by researchers at the Cisco Talos threat intelligence team that could allow a ... Read more
May 30, 2020 BJC HealthCare Patients at 19 Hospitals Impacted by Phishing Attack BJC Healthcare has released that statement that revealed that three of its staff email accounts have been accessed by an unauthorized actor as a result ... Read more
May 22, 2020 Ransomware Attack Sees Data Stolen from Magellan Health Magellan Health, a Fortune 500 company, has revealed that it has suffered a ransomware attack during April that led to the encryption of files and ... Read more
May 15, 2020 Improved Compliance Revealed in Ciitizen HIPAA Right of Access Study There has been a major improvement in compliance with the HIPAA Right of Access, according to the most recent Patient Record Scorecard Report from Ciitizen. ... Read more
May 15, 2020 Saint Francis Healthcare Partners & Florida Internal Medicine Practice Hit by Ransomware Attacks Saint Francis Healthcare Partners in Connecticut has begun making contact with 38,529 patients to make them aware that a portion of their protected health information ... Read more
May 14, 2020 2020 Will See Many Businesses Switch to App-Centric Cloud Governance The public cloud will continue to grow in 2020 and multicloud strategies are fast becoming the norm for businesses. Cloud vendors are working hard to ... Read more