Under a hefty new Medicare payment reform final rule, healthcare providers must attest that they will not inappropriately block secure patient information exchange. But how will the provisions work?
A new audit that uncovered numerous problems with the U.S. Secret Service's IT management is "alarming," says House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a victim of a Secret Service insider breach.
A federal watchdog agency's reviews of Minnesota's state-operated Obamacare health insurance exchange and Colorado's Medicaid eligibility and claims processing systems reveal a variety of security weaknesses that are also common among healthcare providers.
IoT devices running the authentication protocol OpenSSH are being compromised and used as proxies in attacks that aim to take over accounts at popular web services, according to new research from Akamai.
Although experts see widespread, practical applications of artificial intelligence as at least a decade off, it's something that's on the mind of President Obama. The commander in chief shares his thoughts on the intersection of artificial intelligence, medical viruses and cybersecurity.
With comprehensive network modeling extending into virtual networks, network security engineers can gain the needed visibility to unify security and compliance processes across their hybrid hardware and virtual environments.
IoT botnets, the term for armies of hacked internet-connected devices, aren't going away. And an anecdote from the field shows the gravity of the problem and why it's unlikely to be resolved any time soon.
A malware-wielding gang has been targeting financial firms' SWIFT software to inject fraudulent money-moving messages since at least January in "discreet campaigns" not tied to the Bangladesh Bank hack, Symantec warns.
Although an analysis of the latest government statistics confirms continued growth in the information security workforce, the supply of security expertise isn't meeting the demand.
The National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center aims to better engage smaller healthcare organizations in cyber threat information sharing, leveraging funds from two recent federal grants. Denise Anderson, president of NH-ISAC, describes the plans in this in-depth interview.
Under Australia's strict definition of a cyberattack, the country has never actually experienced one. The claim underscores ongoing questions about how to describe cybersecurity incidents.
As cyberattacks on healthcare entities continue to surge, federal regulators are urging organizations to safeguard network-attached storage devices and other gear that supports or enables file transfer protocol services.
Understanding the difference between cybersecurity crisis management and security incident response could be critical to your organization's survival. In this blog, a CISO offers insights on creating an effective crisis management plan.
Two Republican senators are demanding answers from the Federal Trade Commission about the "due process afforded" LabMD in the agency's data security enforcement case against the cancer testing laboratory. Meanwhile, LabMD has asked a federal court to delay the FTC's enforcement order while the lab appeals.
A report on the verbal combat between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump over whether the Russian government is using hacks to influence the U.S. presidential election leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, an update on Dropbox's new password protection strategy.
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