February 23, 2018 PhishLabs Research Reveals Extent of Cybercriminals’ Abuse of HTTPS The Q3 2017 phishing Activity Trends Report from the Anti Phishing Working Group has revealed the extent to which cybercriminals are abusing the Hypertext Transfer ... Read more
February 14, 2018 2018 State of the Cloud Report Released by RightScale RightScale has released its 2018 State of the Cloud Report. This is the seventh year that the cloud management firm has produced the report, which ... Read more
February 5, 2018 CloudRanger Adds Automated Disaster Recovery Testing for AWS Cloud CloudRanger has announced that automated disaster recovery testing for AWS cloud is now available through its platform. Backups are essential, but businesses need to make ... Read more
January 22, 2018 Unauthorized Palomar Health Nurse Viewed Medical Records of Over 1,300 Patients A former nurse employed at Palomar Medical Center Escondido viewed, without authorization, the medical records of more than 1,300 patients who were receiving treatment at the ... Read more
January 18, 2018 API Access for AWS and Azure Launched by Botmetric to Simplify Cloud Management Botmetric has announced it has released APIs for public cloud consumption for AWS and Microsoft Azure. The Botmetric platform is already API-centric with microservices architecture; ... Read more
January 17, 2018 Registered Nurses ‘Happy’ With PHI Security According to University of Phoenix Survey The results of a recent survey completed by the University of Phoenix College of Health Professions indicates registered nurses (RNs) are of the belief that ... Read more
January 17, 2018 PhishLabs Poll Shows Many Employers Do Not Ask Staff to Report Suspicious Emails A recent online poll conducted by the anti-phishing solution provider PhishLabs has revealed a considerable cybersecurity gap exists at many organizations. While most companies now ... Read more
January 16, 2018 DMARC Adoption by Federal Agencies Increases 38% in 30 Days A new report from Agari suggests the decision made by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to make DHS adoption by federal agencies mandatory is ... Read more
December 28, 2017 CloudCheckr Makes Cloud Computing Predictions for 2018 CloudCheckr has assessed the cloud computing trends over the past 12 months and has made several cloud computing predictions for 2018. It has now been ... Read more
December 13, 2017 Accessing Medical Records Without Authorization Leads to Hospital Employee Being Sacked The medical histories of 769 patients at Lowell General Hospital have been accessed by an member of staff without any valid work reason. By accessing ... Read more
December 7, 2017 Skeddly Announces DynamoDB Backups Are Supported Amazon is now supporting DynamoDB Backups and restore, although currently only in limited regions. Over the next few weeks the areas covered will be expanded ... Read more
December 3, 2017 DMARC Adoption Study Reveals Healthcare Industry Lags Behind Other Industry Sectors A recent DMARC adoption study by Agari has revealed the healthcare industry lags behind most other industry sectors on email authentication. Most of the top ... Read more
November 30, 2017 Botmetric Releases 2017 Public Cloud Usage Report Botmetric has released its annual 2017 public cloud usage report. The report includes detailed statistics on cloud adoption and usage by businesses of all sizes, ... Read more
November 27, 2017 Clinic Worker Who Stole PHI Jailed for Five Years A staff member at a clinic who stole the protected health information of mentally ill patients and sold the data to identity thieves for profit ... Read more
November 15, 2017 RightScale Predicts $10 Billion Will be Wasted on Cloud Resources in 2018 Enterprises are investing more money in the cloud, but a large percentage of cloud spending is wasted on unused and underutilized cloud resources. RightScale predicts ... Read more
November 6, 2017 PhishLine Partners with Pipeline Security and Moves into the Japanese Market Milwaukee-based security awareness training and anti-phishing vendor PhishLine has announced a new partnership with the Tokyo-based firm Pipeline Security. It is hoped that this new ... Read more
November 1, 2017 Inky Awarded Cyber Start-Up Company of the Year Award A new player in the anti-phishing arena, Inky, has received a Cyber Start-up Company of the Year Award at the inaugural Infosecurity North America conference ... Read more
October 19, 2017 IT Governance, Cyber Security Policies and Defenses Highlighted in ISACA Research According to the findings of recent research carried out by Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), cyber security and defenses pose the largest challenges ... Read more
October 10, 2017 Over Half of Cloud Storage Services are Misconfigured: Report A recent report by cloud threat defense firm RedLock claims more than half of businesses have made errors that have exposed sensitive data to the ... Read more
October 9, 2017 SMB IT Security Survey Reveals Confidence in Cybersecurity Defenses is Low A recent SMB IT security survey has revealed that while security spending has increased by 17% year over year, IT professionals are less confident in ... Read more
October 9, 2017 What is the Definition of a HIPAA Covered Entity? HIPAA compliance applies to covered entities and business associates, but what is the definition of a HIPAA covered entity and what are HIPAA business associates? ... Read more
October 4, 2017 MediaPro Report Reveals 7 Out of 10 Employees Lack Appropriate Level of Security Awareness The phishing simulation and security awareness training firm MediaPro has released its second annual State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report, which reveals 7 out ... Read more
September 13, 2017 Hospitals in Irma Disaster Area Granted Limited HIPAA Waiver A limited waiver of HIPAA Privacy Rule sanctions and penalties for hospitals affected by Hurricane Irma has been issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human ... Read more
August 28, 2017 HIPAA Privacy Rule Violation Penalties Waived in Wake of Hurricane Harvey Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Tom Price has announced that certain HIPAA compliance violation penalties will be waived in the ... Read more
August 28, 2017 DivvyCloud Platform Now Available for VMware Cloud on AWS The DivvyCloud platform allows customers to consistently enforce policies across hybrid public and private cloud environments and ensure compliance and security of their cloud environments ... Read more
August 16, 2017 Skeddly Develops Easy Workaround to Allow Cost Saving on Multi-AZ RDS Instances Amazon permits users to start and stop RDS instances to save costs when those instances are not in use. Stopping RDS instances when they are ... Read more
August 4, 2017 2017 Healthcare Data Breach Trends Highlighted in Protenus Report Protenus, working with Databreaches.net, has released its Breach Barometer mid-year review. The report includes all healthcare data violations reported over the past six months and ... Read more
July 22, 2017 Hows Does HIPAA Affect Use of Google Drive? The service G Suite – formerly known as Google Apps, of which Google Drive is a part – is compliant with HIPAA. The service does ... Read more
July 18, 2017 Google Makes It Harder to Install Malicious Apps In May, a phishing campaign took advantage of users of Google Docs. Emails were sent containing a link to Google Docs that appeared to be ... Read more
July 12, 2017 Skeddly Adds New Report Showing Health of EBS Snapshots Skeddly has added a new report that gives users visibility into their disaster recovery efforts and helps them check they are meeting their backup requirements. ... Read more