Ransomware attacks are now more advanced. Cybercriminals are creating new approaches and strategies to access systems and deploy ransomware. The most common ways of accessing…
Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss), the Commerce Committee Chair, presented a draft copy of the United States Consumer Data Privacy Act of 2019 (CDAP). CDAP is…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, which is Minnesota’s biggest health insurance company, is presently trying to take care of approximately 200,000 unaddressed vulnerabilities detected…
Sunrise Community Health located in Evans, CO uncovered the exposure of a number of employees’ email accounts because of the employees’ response to phishing emails….
Loudoun Medical Group, also known as Comprehensive Sleep Care Center (CSCC), experienced a phishing attack approximately on June 19, 2019. The IT department was notified…
A ransomware attack on Great Plains Health based in North Platte, NE resulted in the encryption of some patients’ health records. Great Plains Health discovered…
Philips released information about a vulnerability found in Philips IntelliBridge EC40/80 hubs. An attacker could exploit to access vulnerable hubs and execute a software program,…
As per the Inflation Adjustment Act, the U.S Department of Health and Human Services took into account the inflation rate when issuing civil monetary penalties…
The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) paid OCR $3 million as HIPAA penalty for failing to implement encryption on mobile gadgets and for other…
A series of phishing attacks have compromised the protected health information of 56,000 members of Presbyterian Health Plan. The phishing attacks did not directly target…
Little Rock Plastic Surgery (LRPS) is in the process of notifying patients of a data security incident which saw a former employee illegally access the…
Fedcap Rehabilitation is in the process of notifying 2,200 individuals of a data security incident which may have seen their confidential information compromised. New York-based…
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico and the states of Florida,…
Taxpayers and business have been warned of a new IRS phishing scam being used to spread keylogging malware. The hackers design the emails to appear…
Users of the Android app CamScanner have been advised to uninstall the app after a recent version was found to harbour malware. Security researchers at…
The Hospice of San Joaquin in Stockton, California, is in the process of notifying patients that their protected health information may have been compromised in…
Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Washington is notifying 88,399 patients that their confidential health information may have been compromised in a ransomware attack. The hospital…
The US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a limited waiver of HIPAA sanctions and penalties in Louisiana following Tropical Storm Barry making…
Northwood Inc. is notifying individuals that their private information may have been comprised in a data breach following a phishing attack. Northwood Inc., based in…
A fake Office 365 phishing website is being used by hackers to distribute the Trickbot Trojan. The website is a convincing mimic of the legitimate…
Vitagene is in the process of investigating a data breach which has resulted in sensitive information of 3,000 customers from being exposed online. Vitagene, based…
Medical Center Enterprise, Alabama, has been ordered to pay a woman $300,000 in damages for violating her privacy rights. Amy Pertuit’s patient rights were violated…
A former nurse at Takai, Hoover & Hsu has is under investigation for impermissibly accessing of the protected health information (PHI) of 16,542 patients. The…
Microsoft has issued patches for 88 vulnerabilities this patch Tuesday. Of the vulnerabilities, 20 were rated critical. One servicing stack and 4 advisories were also…
A breach at the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) has compromised the records of nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients. AMCA, a billing collections company…
A sexual assault victim has filed a lawsuit against a Kansas hospital for disclosing her private health information to her attacker. The then proceeded to…
St. Vincent Medical Center is once again notifying patients of a data breach after experience a fourth phishing attack since December 2018. On March 26,…
The Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is notifying 25,000 patients that their PHI has been compromised in a ransomware attack. SCADD, based in…
Cybersecurity researchers have identified vulnerabilities in mail clients that could be exploited by hackers in digital signature spoofing attacks. Digital signatures are widely used to…
MD Anderson Cancer Centre has fired three scientists over allegations of espionage. The National Institutes of Health (NiH) contacted MD Anderson Cancer Centre, a world-leading…
Baystate Health has notified 12,000 patients a phishing attack on their facility compromised their PHI. Baystate Health, based in Massachusetts, discovered that an unauthorised individual…
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) has released a report indicating that financial losses due to cybercrime rose drastically in 2018. The 2018 Internet…
Riverplace Counselling Centre is notifying 11,639 patients of a data security incident following the discovery of malware on its systems. Riverplace Counselling Center in Anoka,…
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has issued a statement about a recent ransomware attack on the Wolverine Solutions Group, which may have affected up to…
TitanHQ has released an update of its SpamTitan email security solution. TitanHQ, which specialises in providing email security solutions to SMBs and MSPs, has added…
Pasquotank-Camden Emergency Medical Services (PCEMS) has contacted more than 20,000 patients that their data may have been compromised during a data breach. Hackers exploited a…
A breach at a third-party vendor has resulted in 6,314 patients records from Emerson Hospital in Concord, MA being exposed. The breach occurred between May…
All HIPAA covered entities (CEs) should be aware that the deadline for reporting data breaches that occurred in 2018 of fewer than 500 records is…
Researchers at Menlo Security have announced the discovery of a new campaign tactic used by hackers to distribute the Emotet Trojan malware. Menlo Security’s researchers…
Microsoft and Adobe have issued patches for 150 vulnerabilities this February 2019 Patch Tuesday. These updates included patches for 43 critical Adobe flaws and 20…
VFEmail has announced that it has suffered a debilitating cyber attack which saw nearly all of their data compromised. VFEmail, an email provider, issued a…
A business associate of Blue Cross Blue Shield has announced that it was the victim of a ransomware attack. The breach was reported by Wolverine…
A phishing attack at Family Physicians Group, Orlando, has resulted in 8,400 patients having their protected health information (PHI) compromised. The breach was identified on…
A new phishing threat has been revealed in which the hacker has created a custom web font on their phishing website which renders the malicious…
A data security incident at Lebanon VA Medical Center has resulted in the protected health information (PHI) up to a thousand patients being accidentally sent…
Mimecast has recently released the results of a survey on employee security awareness training in businesses. The results show that in many organisations, employees are…
Prairie Fields Family Medicine has announced that an email error has resulted in the protected health information (PHI) of nearly 6,500 patients being compromised. Prairie…
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, a Texan medical centre based in Frisco, has announced that due to a data security incident, the payment information…
Microsoft has issued patches for 39 vulnerabilities this December 2018 Patch Tuesday. Of the vulnerabilities, 10 were rated critical, 9 of which were in Microsoft…
Altus Baytown Hospital in Baytown, TX, has announced that it was recently a victim of a ransomware attack, with their servers being infected with the…