Privacy & Security
Harold Bornstein, MD, gained attention first for saying that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is in excellent physical condition and, subsequently, for still using a 15-year old operating system that Microsoft no longer supports.
Long Beach, California-based SCAN Health Plan reported its contact sheets' system had been breached by an unauthorized party, which exposed the data from its 107,000 members and some non-plan members who provided their personal information to its sales team.
TrapX, a cybersecurity company, has launched CryptoTrap: a community ransomware decryption tool designed to help healthcare organizations and others bolster their security measures.
The wireless networks of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have "significant" vulnerabilities, according to penetration tests administered by the Office of Inspector General.
The launch is a response to the increase in cybersecurity attacks and a need for incident response management, the vendor says.
Findings shows respondents lost a total of 2.36 TB of data last year, which cost, 22 hours of downtime for each incident and a total of $900,000 on average.
HHS initiative to re-focus on incidents affecting fewer than 500 patients.
The notorious virus is running rampant through global phishing campaigns to a wide range of industries, but U.S. healthcare is ground zero.
As cybercriminals continue to assault the healthcare industry, most health executives are elevating data security as a business priority, according to the 2016 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey, released Aug. 16.
Forrester Research offers insight into best practices to prevent criminals from wreaking havoc as IoT innovation outpaces medical device security.