The progress in modern medical care is remarkable. Increasing development of
Internet of Things (IoT) devices for the medical industry is a key factor in that
progress. In recent years, pacemakers, defibrillators, and other medical device
implants have gotten smaller and smarter.
While medical devices bring a host...
Technology in the healthcare industry has evolved tremendously over the last five years. Technology is now compact, faster, and more affordable. The expectation is that all new healthcare devices and tools are intelligent — with multiple sensors
connected wirelessly to each other and the internet.
The...
A Georgia-based cancer testing laboratory has reported to federal regulators a phishing breach affecting the sensitive information of nearly 245,000 individuals. It is the lab's second hacking breach affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals reported over the last six months.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors examine the story of a Maryland couple facing charges for giving military medical records to Russia, the sentencing of a former Seattle tech worker for her massive Capital One hack, and why David Hatfield resigned as co-CEO of cloud security vendor Lacework.
U.S. President Joe Biden will mount the third attempt to normalize commercial trans-Atlantic data flows by signing an executive order implementing privacy safeguards on American intelligence gathering. The order follows nearly two years of negotiations between Brussels and Washington.
Your work is important. Patients and medical staff worldwide benefit from
the life-changing and life-saving connected medical devices that you are
developing. Yet these devices are more complex than ever as is their path
to the marketplace.
Engineers are rethinking their workflows to confront
these issues and...
The medical device market in the United States accounts for almost 5% of the total
healthcare market with total annual spend of $3 trillion. This market includes a wide
range of products from simple devices like thermometers to more complex IoT devices
like patient monitors, smart infusion pumps, and MRI...
Lloyd's of London is probing a possible cybersecurity incident that led it to yank some systems offline. Details are scarce at the moment, including whether the incident is malicious or involves ransomware and who may have instigated the incident.
If exploited, a hard-coded credential vulnerability in certain BD medical laboratory equipment used for cancer screenings could allow an attacker to access, modify or delete sensitive patient information, the manufacturer and federal authorities warn.
The January memorandum from President Biden’s Office of Management and Budget calls for adopting multifactor authentication that includes the verification of device-based security controls, continuous monitoring, and authentication and mandates a switch to phishing-resistant MFA by January 2023.
A cybersecurity incident at Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, a system of 1,500 healthcare sites across 21 states and one of the nation’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems, is disrupting medical care after the healthcare system took offline some of its electronic health records systems.
Paige Thompson, the Capital One hacker known as "erratic," was sentenced to time served and five years of probation following her June conviction in U.S. federal court. The five-time felon exploited a weakness in web application firewalls on AWS accounts to steal data of 100 million individuals.
While vArmour has enjoyed success in banking, the U.S. government is now the fastest-growing part of its business. CEO Tim Eades says much of the government doesn't understand the relationships and dependencies among vArmour's applications or the consequences of an application going down.
A Senate committee this week approved a bill that would create governmentwide standards for identity verification and provide grants to help states and local agencies upgrade ID systems and offer online digital identity services. Supporter Jeremy Grant hopes to see a full Senate vote in 2022.
Security firms must increasingly follow U.S. government security requirements even if they don't serve federal agencies themselves, says Avi Shua, Orca Security co-founder and CEO. That's because cloud vendors such as Orca often serve businesses that contract or subcontract with the U.S. government.
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