Every business can suffer financially and reputationally from Denial of Service attacks or ransomware, but in healthcare, patient safety is at risk. In this video, two cybersecurity experts advise healthcare organizations not to fret…
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By Jill McKeon
May 24, 2023 – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), released…
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About half of ransomware attacks have disrupted healthcare delivery among the largest hospitals and healthcare systems, according to a JAMA study published earlier this year. But at smaller and medium-sized providers, often with tighter security budgets and…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 17, 2023 – The United States government offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian hacker accused of multiple ransomware attacks on US…
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The following is a guest article by TJ Houske, Senior Vice President of Technology, Operations, and Engineering at OTAVA
Ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations doubled in the last five years, according to a new study…
Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s…
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World leaders in cyber security have come together to form an Advisory Council to share insight and drive innovation to help tackle the many security challenges facing the rapidly digitalising healthcare sector.The council has…
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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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Hackers breach the systems of NextGen Healthcare and access the information of one million patients, according to a filed breach report.
The company says that its cloud-based NextGen Office EHR/PM was accessed using…
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3), which was created by the Department of Health and Human Services, is sounding the alarm on two ransomware groups that are actively targeting the healthcare sector: Cl0p…
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