The March 29th FDA rule changes for the acceptance of new medical devices is a long awaited and major step in the right direction towards improving the security of medical ...
Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that as of Oct 1st, 2023, it would “refuse to accept” medical devices and related systems unless they meet its new ...
The Center Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF), a 1000-bed hospital located in Corbeil-Essonnes 28km SE from the center of Paris, has been virtually paralyzed by a cyberattack. ...
NHS 111 services are down for much of the UK following a cyber-attack Thursday morning against the hosting infrastructure of software vendor Advanced. The company's Adastra ...
Facebook’s parent company Meta is facing two proposed class-action lawsuits for using the Meta Pixel tracking tool on health system websites to target ads. This is not the first ...
Russia ready to launch cyber attacks on the West in retaliation for economic sanctions Cylera's Chief Security Strategist, Richard Staynings, weighs in on potential threats from ...
Cylera's Chief Security Strategist, Richard Staynings, recaps highlights and presentation from Digital Health REWIRED 2022 Digital Health Rewired was full of highly informative ...
Protecting Medical Devices: Insights from Cybersecurity Experts In today's technological landscape, healthcare organizations increasingly rely on medical devices to deliver ...
A Resounding Success! After last year's amazing success at HIMSS, we were excited to reconnect with our peers, partners, and meet new people at this year's HIMSS conference! Going ...
New Discoveries Link Kwampirs Malware to Shamoon APTs INTRODUCTION This blog shares the findings of Cylera Labs threat intelligence researchers, who first found a link between ...
New Discoveries Linking Kwampirs Malware to Shamoon APTS Cylera Labs has been investigating the Kwampirs malware actively since August 2018, and was the first to identify the ...
Understand the current state of Healthcare Security and what must be done to improve it. Healthcare is an industry currently undergoing the most dramatic transformation in its ...
As the Russia-Ukraine conflict escalates, should we be worried about state sponsored cyber attacks against our hospitals? Absolutely we should! For the past decade and a half, the ...
Increased pressure on the private sector to protect critical infrastructure extends to the rails. The Biden administration's latest directive puts the rail systems under the ...
'Tis the season to be wary! Every year, the holiday season features at least one retail data breach. This year, especially with the unstable status of the pandemic, people are ...
Cyber risk is being ignored by CEOs and exacerbated by a drought in cybersecurity talent. Source: Healthcare Innovation According to Cyber Seek—a tech job-tracking database from ...
Organizations must develop strong password policies to prevent and combat destructive cyber attacks. As the number and breadth of cyber attacks and breaches increase each day, ...
How is artificial intelligence changing the cyber landscape? As organizations scramble to digitalize and automate processes, they enter an ever expanding landscape of cyber ...
Unsecured Egregor Chat Support Logs with Ransomware Victims: Insights and Analysis by IBM and Cylera INTRODUCTION IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence analysts, together with ...
Someone may be intercepting your online traffic to steal your information. Man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) are a common type of cybersecurity attack where an attacker intercepts ...
2020 was a critical and pivotal year for the healthcare industry while a global pandemic raged on, what can we expect for 2021? Not since the major wars of the twentieth century ...
Are your contractors and vendors leaving your backdoor open for attack? Cyber risks in healthcare are not just confined to data centers, to nursing stations, or to the PHI data ...
A large number of GE Healthcare medical devices have a vulnerability that could put patient safety and privacy at risk. On December 9th, two separate credential reuse ...
The recent cyber attack against various US federal government agencies and leading security companies like FireEye maybe just the tip of the iceberg. On December 13th security ...
Cybercrime is today's fastest growing form of criminal activity. However, do we really understand the true cost of a cyber attack and the damage it does to a company's future? ...
Healthcare delivery organizations are forced to direct scarce resources away from patient care because of expensive data breaches. According to the IBM/Ponemon 2020 Cost of a Data ...
The global healthcare crisis has put a toll on a lot of healthcare organizations and cyber criminals are using this to their advantage. In the midst of a global healthcare ...
What new risks and vulnerabilities are introduced with providing remote healthcare? Since the COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of people to work from home, companies across ...
There are obstacles to overcome before blockchain can become the panacea for secure access to healthcare medical records. What is blockchain? Blockchain technology is a ...
How does Zero Trust work to prevent opportunistic ransomware and targeted nation-state cyber attacks by regulating access control? Last week in the Cylera blog we wrote about Zero ...
Zero trust is a cyber-security model based on the principle of 'trust but verify' and that no one is to be trusted by default, even those already inside the network perimeter. The ...
Hospitals do a great job of treating patients, but sometimes they forget about privacy and security. Our transformative healthcare industry increasingly relies on the use of ...
Are newer medical IoT devices more to blame for healthcare network vulnerabilities? Legacy medical IoT devices may lack security features, but newer ones built around commodity ...
Cyber criminals and pariah nation-states are taking advantage of the disruption caused by the pandemic to run amok. Few actions raise the question of ethics more than a lawyer ...
In what ways can we combat the increasing number of cyber criminals taking advantage of situations caused by the pandemic? Whether the pandemic cyber-attacks are just highly ...
The despised practice of ‘surprise' or 'balance billing,' where the gap between what your health insurance regards as a fair and equitable charge for services and what your ...
Healthcare professionals are putting their lives on the line to provide critical care Not since 1918 has a global pandemic caused so much disruption to society. Soldiers returning ...
A recent cyberattack against U.S. Health and Human Services is a lesson to us all to better manage cyber risk in a healthcare environment. According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Health ...
Risks introduced by third parties could significantly contribute to healthcare cybersecurity risk. The rising number of non-IT devices plugged in or connected wirelessly to ...
How can compromised healthcare IT systems lead to life-threatening consequences? Healthcare CEOs know all about patient safety – at least that’s what they’ll tell you. Joint ...
Patient safety in the era of medical wearables and Healthcare Iot: Is new technology helping us stay healthy or introducing risks? Most of us now wear some form of fitness ...
Healthcare has undergone a radical transformation to digitalization and interoperability but has yet to secure or staff its new delivery model. Healthcare has evolved over the ...
Is healthcare doing enough to protect themselves and their patients from long-lasting, irreversible effects of a cyber attack? The financial costs associated with a security ...
Don't speak "geek" to the Board, or you will receive a cool reception. At some point in our careers, many of us will be called upon to present to the board of directors. This ...
Should clinicians fully trust the integrity of the data presented to them? Cyber-attacks are becoming a major global concern. Not just against nation-states but also for a ...
State sponsored cyber attacks against healthcare and the widescale theft of PHI, PII, and IP are escalating, putting the whole sector at increased risk. Not Petya (Nyetya), ...
HIoT devices have little to no built-in security and are highly vulnerable to cyber-attack, how can we begin securing such systems? Internet of things (IoT) systems are growing at ...
How do those in the healthcare industry start protecting themselves from ever-increasing cyber risks? Today we live in an era of escalating cyber threats from bad actors and ...
Is the CIA triad of information security being weakened by myopic focus on only one side? The triangle is widely regarded as being the strongest geometric shape. This rings true ...
Cylera researchers have recently discovered a flaw that enables malware to embed itself within medical imaging files. This newly discovered flaw, found by Cylera researchers, ...
A recent story showcasing the FDA's recent cybersecurity compromises forces the question: Are we in a pattern of complacency? A recent story which ran on CBS News entitled “How ...