Privacy & Security

The organization was infected with Harak1r1 the 0.2 Bitcoin Ransomware, which completely wipes data from the hacked database instead of traditional encryption.

The hacker who targeted Anthem in early 2015, exposing more than 78 million customer records in one of the largest healthcare breaches ever, was acting on behalf of a foreign government.

Eric Miller runs Ascension’s software-defined networking automation that enables secure connectivity to support Internet of Things and other technology advances - using methods that he says can advance the impact of IoT.

A white hat hacker says he notified DoD subcontractor Potomac Healthcare on Dec. 29, but the files remained online for more than an hour after the initial warning.

Eric Topol and Kathryn Haun make the case for keeping medical data in personal clouds or digital wallets, empowering patients and removing centralized targets for cybercrooks, in a New York Times op-ed piece.

Everything attendees need to know about cybersecurity events at the 2017 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, which includes a cybersecurity command center, educational sessions and an all-day forum.

A patient at accessed the information from a library computer and, nearly a year later, posted it online.

The State of Digital Marketing in Healthcare 2017 report finds that many hospitals lack the infrastructure for deploying modern tools they need for crisis management, including data breaches. 

Here are some of the most popular stories of the past year – and a few that were emblematic of the momentous trends that shaped healthcare information technology in 2016.

On Dec. 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a final guidance addressing the cyber vulnerabilities in medical devices, outlining how manufacturers should maintain security of internet-connected devices such as pacemakers and insulin pumps.