Security News

Healthcare billing biz AccuDoc 'fesses up to breach that blabbed 2.65m people's data
2018-11-29 15:00

Names, addresses, social security numbers exposed Miscreants gained access to US healthcare billing vendor AccuDoc Solutions' database for about a week in September, exposing the data of at least...

Phishing Scams in Healthcare: A Persistent Threat
2018-11-27 20:48

Breach Tally Shows Hacking Attacks Involving Email Continue to Plague the SectorWith the year nearly over, hacking attacks - especially those involving phishing - continue to rack up big victim...

Improving Healthcare Security Education
2018-11-20 20:48

Wombat's Gretel Egan on How to Take a Fresh Approach to the Awareness ChallengeAs attackers increasingly take advantage of users' risky behavior, enterprise security leaders are taking steps to...

Breach of Obamacare Healthcare Site Spilled Sensitive Data
2018-11-13 09:33

75,000 Victims' Income, Pregnancy Status and More Potentially ExposedMore than two weeks after announcing that the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, had been hacked, the Department of Health and...

Update: HealthCare.gov Breach Exposed Extensive Data
2018-11-12 17:18

Notification Letter Describes Types of Data on 75,000 That Was ExposedMore than two weeks after announcing that the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, had been hacked, the Department of Health and...

Healthcare Security Summit Speaker on Vendor Risk Management
2018-10-29 18:18

Organizations must carefully monitor that their business associates are adequately addressing data security to help guard against breaches, says Mark Eggleston, CISO at Health Partners Plans, who...

Hackers Breach HealthCare.gov System, Get Data on 75,000
2018-10-20 20:21

A government computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov was hacked earlier this month, compromising the sensitive personal data of some 75,000 people, officials said Friday. read more

Report: Remote Access Is No. 1 Healthcare Tech Hazard
2018-10-11 20:48

ECRI Institute Calls Attention to Cyber Risks for Second Consecutive YearHackers remotely accessing medical devices and systems - potentially disrupting care and putting patients at risk - is the...

Preventing a 'Doomsday' Healthcare Cyber Event
2018-10-08 19:18

The healthcare sector needs to continue upping its ante in cybersecurity to prevent potentially catastrophic "doomsday" events that could devastate regional healthcare systems, says Erik Decker,...

Feeling the Pulse of Cyber Security in Healthcare
2018-09-12 13:26

The most recent headlines about data breaches at a broad range of healthcare providers and their third-party vendors (e.g., Legacy Health, LabCorp Diagnostics, read more