Security News

10 years for Boston Children’s Hospital DDoSer
2019-01-14 11:47

Martin Gottesfeld said he wishes he “had done more” than knock out BCH’s network for at least two weeks.

Boston Children's Hospital Hacker Gets Long Prison Sentence
2019-01-11 20:33

Hacktivist Martin Gottesfeld Also Ordered to Pay RestitutionA hacktivist who launched distributed denial-of-service attacks on Boston Children's Hospital and another local facility in 2014 has...

DDoSing Hospital Networks Landed This Hacktivist in Jail for Over 10 Years
2019-01-11 09:48

A simple DDoS attack could land you in jail for 10 years or even more. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the computer network of...

No plain sailing for Anon hacktivist picked up by Disney cruise ship: 10 years in the cooler for hospital DDoS caper
2019-01-11 09:05

Healthcare networks pummeled amid drama over teen girl's custody Five months after he was found guilty of orchestrating a distributed denial-of-service attack against US healthcare providers, the...

Hacktivist Gets 10-Year Prison Sentence for DDoS Attack on Hospitals
2019-01-11 07:37

A 34-year-old man from Somerville, Massachusetts, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against two healthcare organizations in the...

If you wanna learn from the IT security blunders committed by hacked hospital group, here's some weekend reading
2019-01-11 04:04

Database intrusion should not have succeeded, probe finds, but... The theft of 1.5 million patient records, including those of Singapore's Prime Minister, from the city state's SingHealth hospital...

Top vulnerabilities hospital executives should address immediately
2019-01-08 06:15

The three most critical and common high-security cyber risks facing healthcare delivery organizations and their partners have been uncovered in an analysis by the Clearwater CyberIntelligence...

HIPAA Case: Hospital Fined for Ex-Employee's Access to PHI
2018-12-12 19:18

Enforcement Action is the Third in Recent Weeks, Eighth This YearIn its third enforcement action in recent weeks, federal regulators have hit a Colorado medical center with a HIPAA fine in a case...

Russian Hospital Targeted With Flash Zero-Day After Kerch Incident
2018-12-05 17:11

Security updates released by Adobe on Wednesday for Flash Player patch two vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw exploited by a sophisticated threat actor in attacks aimed at a healthcare...

Why hospitals are the next frontier of cybersecurity
2018-12-04 07:00

Hospital cybersecurity is a pressing problem with unique challenges and incalculable stakes. The healthcare industry’s accelerating adoption of sophisticated networks, connected devices and...