The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics located in Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia found out that unauthorized persons got access to the email accounts of several…
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an announcement about the seizure of a dark web website utilized by the NetWalker ransomware gang in connection…
In May 2020, the cloud software corporation Blackbaud encountered a ransomware attack. As is typical in human-operated ransomware attacks, the attackers exfiltrated files before file…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed the $4,348,000 HIPAA violation charges enforced by the Department of Health and Human Services’…
On January 5, 2020, President Trump signed a bill (HR 7898) that makes changes to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act…
A vulnerability was found in Zyxel devices such as firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point (AP) controllers that hackers may take advantage of to get…
The DHS’ Cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Agency has published a website with resources concerning the recent activities of the advanced persistent threat (APT) group liable…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has arrived at a settlement deal with Peter Wrobel, M.D., P.C., dba Elite…
A seasonal staff at a tech firm in Virginia got sentenced to 42 months imprisonment for accessing patient files, theft of personally identifiable information (PII),…
Rave Mobile Safety has introduced a COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Solution that will make it possible for public health agencies to determine who should receive priority…
University of Minnesota Physicians lately encountered a phishing attack that made it possible for unauthorized persons to get access to two employees’ email accounts. One…
Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS) sent a notification about a potential breach of the protected health information (PHI) of 37,000 persons due to several…
The HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has released a recent advisory on ransomware activity that targets the healthcare and…
Server Breach Impacts Patients of Northwest Eye Surgeons and Sight Partners Northwest Eye Surgeons LLC and Sight Partners LLC began informing 20,838 patients regarding the…
The City of New Haven, Connecticut has made the decision to resolve its HIPAA violation case with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office…
MITRE Corporation created a new rubric for determining Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scores of medical device vulnerabilities and it has passed the FDA’s scrutiny….
Comparitech security researcher Bob Diachenko has found an open group of databases that belong to the Voice over IP (VoIP) telecommunications merchant Broadvoice. The records…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint advisory about sophisticated advanced persistent threat groups sequencing…
Subsequent to a time period of dormancy between February 2020 and July 2020, the Emotet botnet jumped back again and began spam runs circulating the…
Universal Health Services (UHS) based in King of Prussia, PA has encountered a major security breach that led to the unavailability of its IT systems….
The U.S. Department of Justice issued an advisory that an associate of the well known hacking group, The Dark Overlord, obtained his sentence to 5…
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a security warning that hackers associated with China’s Ministry of State Security…
The National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM) is being celebrated this September 2020 for the second year. All through the month, resources will be offered…
An advisory issued by the American College Of Radiology, the Society For Imaging Informatics In Medicine, and the Radiological Society of North America highlight a…
IRONSCALES new research showed a substantial spike in credential theft utilizing spoofed websites. In the first half of 2020, the researchers discovered and reviewed bogus…
Beaumont Health, the leading healthcare system located in Michigan, began notifying 6,000 patients about the potential access of their protected health information (PHI) by unauthorized…
The House of Representatives voted to remove the restriction on the Department of Health and Human Services to use federal funds for creating a national…
A pharmacy chain reported that looters stole the protected health information (PHI) of some of its clients at the end of May at the time…
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has issued to Lifespan ACE, an affiliated covered entity of Lifespan Health System, a $1,040,000 HIPAA fine right after…
Lorien Health Services based in Ellicott City, MD, which manages 9 assisted living facilities throughout Maryland had encountered a ransomware attack on June 6, 2020….
A few vulnerabilities were discovered in the Apache Guacamole remote access system. Plenty of companies had been using Apache Guacamole to allow administrators and personnel…
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has published guidance to aid businesses in protecting IP Security (IPsec) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) that are utilized to…
Grays Harbor Community Hospital and Harbor Medical Group accepted the proposed settlement deal of the class-action lawsuit that the representative plaintiff filed in connection with…
A lot more organizations these days are implementing their digital transformations and are utilizing the flexibility, scalability, and cost savings presented by public cloud spaces….
Rangely District Hospital in Colorado began informing patients concerning the April 2020 ransomware attack that affected some of their protected health information (PHI) located on…
A lot of organizations are compelled to modify working strategies due to the COVID-19 crisis. A big number of workers now do their jobs from…
Healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente based in Oakland, CA found out that an ex-employee got access to the radiology files of a lot of patients with…
Four Senators sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) due to the new…
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is confronted with legal action pertaining to two privacy breaches that involved staff accessing the medical records of patients without…
Daniel Bendetowicz, MD, PA is informing 3,314 patients about the exposure of their PHI because of a ransomware attack. The attack took place on March…
BJC Healthcare made an announcement about the unauthorized persons accessing the email accounts of three BJC employees after replying to the phishing emails in their…
UPMC Altoona found out about an unauthorized access to the email account of one doctor and the person possibly viewed or obtained the protected health…