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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
State-sponsored hackers seek to manipulate the global market by targeting major healthcare organizations. Cyber attacks are on the rise across the board during the COVID-19 ...
Hackers easily accessed surveillance cameras in a shocking data breach. Bloomberg reported today that a group of hackers breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected ...
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 ...
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? ...
A spike in criminal cyber activity leaves hospitals and healthcare delivery organizations open to a Ryuk ransomware attack. Here's what it is & what to do about it. Government ...
In the 21st century, how can we prepare for the realities of the even evolving technological challenges of the healthcare industry? The first step in using clinical informatics ...
What can we learn from the evolution of managed security services to help us prepare for the future? Historically, managed security services (MSS) started with hand-rolled ...
With an increase in medical technology and a rise in cybercrime, do healthcare professionals need someone to bridge the gap and translate the growing risks? As healthcare ...
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 ...
We are outgunned and outmanned 5 to 1 against cyber attackers. What automated tools can we use to defend and protect ourselves against them? What is artificial intelligence? ...
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 ...
How AI can help monitor and track healthcare data to mitigate the impact of cyber attacks There was a fine balance between health technology services, risk, and security before ...
There has been an increase in ransomware and other cyber attacks against healthcare as COVID-19 cases rise. Amid the surge of the pandemic and the ensuing chaos, cybercriminals ...
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 ...
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 an escalating war of cybercrime during a global pandemic, smaller healthcare providers are losing more battles than they are winning. An increasing number of global healthcare ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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), ...
What are the dangers of ignoring cybersecurity vulnerabilities? Doctors take a hippocratic oath, so why is medical technology not subject to similar ethical standards when medical ...
What makes cyber attacks so disastrous for healthcare providers, and how can we begin addressing these threats? The recent SingHealth breach should be a wake-up call for ...
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 ...