healthcare
The current state of cybersecurity in the connected hospital
Abbott and The Chertoff Group released a white paper that shares key findings from a recent study of 300 physicians and 100 hospital administrators on cybersecurity challenges …
Internal negligence to blame for most data breaches involving personal health information
Your personal identity may fall at the mercy of attackers on many websites, but when it comes to health data breaches, hospitals, doctors offices and even insurance companies …
Anthem will pay $16 million to settle HIPAA violation due to 2015 breach
Anthem has agreed to pay $16 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and take substantial corrective action to settle …
Health websites routinely share your activity with 57 third-parties
B9 Systems conducted research into the use of cookies by health websites and discovered that all the major players share your private information with, on average, 57 other …
Hackers are finding creative ways to target connected medical devices
Hackers are leveraging error messages from connected medical devices — including radiology, X-ray and other imaging systems — to gain valuable insights, according to Zingbox. …
Phillips plugs security flaws in e-Alert tool
Dutch tech company Phillips has fixed several serious security flaws in Philips e-Alert, a tool that helps magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems work as intended. About …
Healthcare CISOs: Manage infosec risks and safeguard patient safety
Prominent CISOs from leading health systems and providers throughout the country have come together to establish the Provider Third Party Risk Management Council to develop, …
Old “Misfortune Cookie” flaw opens medical gateway and devices to attack
A vulnerability in Qualcomm Life Capsule Datacaptor Terminal Server (DTS) can be easily exploited to allow attackers to execute unauthorized code to obtain administrator-level …
Analysis: Reported data breaches in Australia
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has published the first full quarter report on data breaches that fall under Notifiable Data Breaches scheme and, …
Securing healthcare organizations: The challenges CISOs face
Healthcare organizations are ideal targets for criminals looking to steal personal and other sensitive information, as the industry is lagging behind when it comes to …
Hackers stole personal, medication data of a quarter of Singaporeans
Hackers have breached Singapore’s health service and have stolen personal information of some 1.5 million patients. They have also compromised outpatient medication data …
Innovation in healthcare: A hacker’s dream and CISO’s nightmare?
It’s hard not to be excited about artificial intelligence and machine learning in pure technology terms, but applying these innovations to the healthcare sector has the …