Security News

Business Email Compromises: The Growing Threat in Healthcare
2019-02-15 18:33

Business email compromise attacks are becoming far more common in the healthcare sector, says Rod Piechowski of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, who discusses promising...

Blockchain in Healthcare: The Potential Benefits, Risks
2019-02-14 16:33

Indiana University Health is evaluating the use of blockchain in two areas to improve healthcare information security, Mitch Parker, CISO, says in an interview at the HIMSS19 conference. He sizes...

Healthcare email fraud: Attack attempts jump 473% over two years
2019-02-13 06:30

Proofpoint found that healthcare organisations were targeted in 96 email fraud attacks on average in Q4 2018 – a 473 percent jump from Q1 2017. More than half of these organisations (53 percent)...

ClearDATA introduces multi-cloud Kubernetes solution for healthcare
2019-02-13 02:00

ClearDATA, a leading healthcare cloud, security and compliance expert, announced its Kubernetes solution for healthcare and life sciences organizations across multiple cloud platforms, including...

Assessing IoT Risks in Healthcare Environments
2019-02-11 14:03

Healthcare organizations should steer clear of connecting internet of things devices to their networks unless they serve a precise medical purpose, says attorney Julia Hesse, a featured speaker at...

Healthcare Case Study: Identity and Access Management
2019-01-25 19:33

How can a large healthcare delivery system efficiently handle identity and access management for thousands of clinicians and other users of patient data? Robert Siebenthaler of PeaceHealth...

Why Do Phishing Attacks Continue to Plague Healthcare?
2019-01-17 21:03

Experts Offer Tips for How to Avoid Falling VictimSeveral health data breaches involving phishing attacks - including one that potentially exposed data on more than 100,000 individuals - have been...

Data Breach Roundup: U.S. Healthcare, Cryptopia, SingHealth and Experian
2019-01-15 21:44

January is off to a running start on the data breach front, while Experian is predicting new attack frontiers ahead.

Lessons From Report on Massive Singapore Healthcare Hack
2019-01-10 20:48

Analysis of SingHealth Attack Offers Recommendations That Could Be Applied WordwideA variety of security weaknesses contributed to a massive 2017 health data security breach in Singapore,...