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Veriato's Pete Nourse on Why This Is the Sector's Achilles HeelOrganizations in all sectors struggle with mitigating the insider threat, but it's an acute concern in healthcare, where patients'...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...