By Jill McKeon
May 15, 2023 – Uintah Basin Healthcare (UBH) recently notified 103,974 individuals of a healthcare data breach that potentially compromised the protected health information of patients. UBH first discovered suspicious network activity on…
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By Jill McKeon
May 12, 2023 – The internet has a bot problem, cybersecurity company Imperva suggested in its 2023 Bad Bot Report. Nearly half of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022, while human…
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By Jill McKeon
May 11, 2023 – The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center’s (HC3) latest alert details the growing trend of threat actors targeting a known vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) software. VBR is…
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By Jill McKeon
May 11, 2023 – The New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) reported a breach to HHS that impacted 49,000 individuals. The breach occurred when DOH discovered that a spreadsheet containing information about individual…
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By Jill McKeon
May 10, 2023 – Kansas-based McPherson Hospital recently notified 19,020 individuals of a healthcare data breach. According to the May 4 notice, McPherson Hospital fell victim to a ransomware attack on July 12,…
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Rural Hospitals Need Federal Assistance to Strengthen IT Security Posture By Kate Pierce
Kate Pierce, MSMIITA is senior virtual information security officer and executive director of the Subsidy program of Fortified Health Security of Franklin,…
By Sarai Rodriguez
May 09, 2023 – SuperCare Health has agreed to a data breach settlement totaling $2.25 million in a class-action lawsuit filed by plaintiff Vickey Angulo and class members, who alleged the organization’s “reckless”…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 08, 2023 – Rising password breaches accelerate the adoption of password-less authentication methods such as biometrics, passkeys, and security keys as 41 percent of IT decision-makers accredited these practices to better identity…
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By Jill McKeon
May 05, 2023 – Tennessee-based Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter (MMC) is actively recovering a “sophisticated criminal cyberattack” that it suffered on April 22, its website states.
In response to the attack, MMC immediately…
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Don Kelly, Manager of the Virtual Information Security Program at Fortified Health SecurityIt’s a fact: More than 80% of data breaches involve a human in some way. That could involve someone falling for a…
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