Security News
To prepare for the transition into Windows 7 End of Life, Cynerio is offering hospitals a complementary risk assessment until February 14, 2020. Connected medical devices are the weakest link in healthcare security and the prevalence of devices running on the Windows 7 operating system puts hospitals at even greater risk of cyber attack.
A breach stemming from malware infecting a medical imaging server at a small, rural New Mexico hospital serves as a reminder of medical equipment data security and privacy vulnerabilities and risks faced by facilities of all sizes. While Roosevelt General says in its statement that the malware infecting a digital imaging server did not affect EHRs, the risk of medical device security incidents also affecting records systems is a growing worry, some experts say.
The ransomware attack earlier this month led the hospital system to reschedule surgeries and appointments.
New Jersey’s largest hospital system said Friday that a ransomware attack last week disrupted its computer network and that it paid a ransom to stop it. read more
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center has added security measures and is informing people whose personal information was exposed due to a data breach earlier this year, hospital officials said. read more
OCR Says Organization Dropped the Ball on Breach Reporting, Business Associate AgreementFederal regulators have slapped Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Hospitals with a $2.2 million HIPAA settlement...
Good news? They're not paying the ransom A French hospital has suffered a ransomware attack that reportedly caused the lockdown of 6,000 computers.…
National Veterinary Associates (NVA), a California company that owns more than 700 animal care facilities around the globe, is still working to recover from a ransomware attack late last month...
Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity...
A northwestern Indiana hospital system is warning more than 68,000 patients that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and health records, may have been exposed during a...