Several critical security vulnerabilities in the firmware of control panels powering current models of pneumatic tube system stations made by Swisslog Healthcare could allow attackers to gain control of targeted hospitals' tube networks, says Ben Seri of the security firm Armis, which discovered the flaws.
Healthcare went through five years of transformation over the course of 2020. How does this new telehealth focus most change how healthcare security leaders must view cybersecurity?
In an eBook with Information Security Media Group, Hank Schless of Lookout discusses:
Remote work;
Device security;
Visibility...
A phishing campaign targeting a company that administers student health plans demonstrates the regulatory issues that arise when the personal information of students is compromised. That's because it's unclear whether HIPAA or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act may apply.
Security experts offer an analysis of Gartner's new strategic road map for SASE adoption that emphasizes the need for a detailed migration plan and offer tips for a successful rollout.
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking comments on how it can improve its security risk assessment tool, which is designed to help smaller organizations conduct assessments as required under HIPAA. Some critics have said the tool is too difficult to use.
Ransomware attacks and breaches of vendors continue to account for the biggest health data breaches added to the official federal tally so far this year.
Your data is leaking and it's at risk.
Data is a crucial and pervasive asset of any healthcare organization, but to safeguard your most
valuable information—as well as that of your patients—there needs to be a shift in the data security
strategy to protect what really matters: the data itself.
Your data is...
Forefront Dermatology S.C, a Wisconsin-based dermatology practice with affiliated offices in 21 states plus Washington, D.C., is notifying 2.4 million patients, employees and clinicians of a recent hacking incident. The attack apparently involved a ransomware strain known as "Cuba."
While the use of telehealth has surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, the data security and privacy concerns for both patients and healthcare providers have also increased, says cybersecurity strategist Kayne McGladrey.
A year ago, Chris Pierson and BlackCloak studied executives at top global pharma companies to learn the extent of password-based vulnerabilities. The findings weren't reassuring. Pierson revisited the study this year with a select few entities to see if the needle has moved in a more secure direction.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is considering new cybersecurity requirements for hospitals participating in Medicare after a watchdog agency recommended CMS should require the facilities to address the cybersecurity of their networked medical devices.
With no federal privacy law in place, individual states in the US are working to create their own privacy laws to protect their residents. California’s law is already in place, and Virginia just recently passed one of its own. Colorado has a law on the table for voting, while other states are trying repeatedly to...
With a goal of better matching the right patients to all the right medical records, federal regulators have issued new draft technical specifications for standardizing how patients' physical addresses are formatted and represented in health IT systems. But could the effort present new security and privacy risks?
The migration to the cloud has been in motion for some time, but the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this transition, especially for healthcare organizations where there has been an increase in telemedicine and new remote work requirements.
Attackers go after data wherever it is stored. In healthcare, that data...
Information security professionals would agree that it’s important to be able to identify attacks related to ransomware, detect threats that exploit vulnerabilities in the cloud and workloads, and know when compromised medical IoT devices are used to carry out attacks.
“And by leveraging the platform, its AI...
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