Privacy & Security
Cybercriminals increasingly are using object linking and embedding packages though healthcare executives have options to fight them.
IBM breaks down the much-hyped technology for healthcare and other industry executives looking to better grasp what the tech can do.
Philadelphia ransomware is part of a highly targeted spear-phishing campaign that may signify more ransomware-as-service campaigns are on the horizon.
A failed contract to build a customer database for HealthNow Networks, left personal health information exposed online for months, according to an investigation by ZDNet and DataBreaches.net.
The law was enacted when the internet was in its infancy and healthcare was still paper-based.
If passed, the law would help small- and medium-sized healthcare providers that often have constrained security budgets.
With Bitcoin allowing attackers to stay anonymous, and a bulls-eye painted over the industry, time to get prepared is running out, group says.
ABCD Children’s Pediatrics also discovered other evidence of hackers on the network, which included suspicious user accounts.
More than a third of the 1,798 breaches discovered in 2016 affected either large hospitals or academic medical centers, a JAMA report found.
As threats continue to plague the healthcare industry, Congress needs to financially support industries willing to share threat data, group says.