Cyber criminals have long viewed healthcare as an attractive target. But in today's uncertain environment, cyber threats are more potentially damaging than ever. Ransomware attacks show no sign of stopping – simply because they work. Download IDC's Industry Spotlight to learn more about how healthcare organizations...
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Two separate proposed class action data privacy lawsuits involving the use of Meta Pixel tracking tools in healthcare entity websites are continuing to proceed with new legal developments this week in a Northern California federal court.
Most healthcare workers don't check security protocols before trying out new generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, putting patient and other sensitive data at risk, said Sean Kennedy of software vendor Salesforce, which recently conducted research on potential security gaps in healthcare settings.
Cloud-based electronic health records vendor NextGen Healthcare is notifying more than 1 million individuals of a data compromise involving stolen credentials. The data breach appears to be at least the second alleged data security incident the company has investigated since January.
Regulators are continuing their campaign to enforce compliance with the HIPAA "right of access" provision. HHS on Monday said it had slapped a solo-practitioner psychotherapy counselor with a $15,000 settlement in a dispute involving a father who sought medical records of his three minor children.
As the cyberthreat and regulatory landscapes are evolving, so too are the data security and privacy priorities of healthcare sector entities, said Taylor Lehmann, director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud, who explains how organizations can respond to the challenges.
A Tennessee medical clinic and surgery center is still struggling to fully recover two weeks after a "sophisticated criminal cyberattack" - which included an attempt to steal data - forced the entity to take its IT systems offline and cancel most patient services.
The tally of individuals whose sensitive information was compromised by the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnyWhere secure file transfer software is growing by millions as more entities report heath data breaches to regulators.
A woman suing Lehigh Valley Health Network dropped her push for a court order requiring the medical center to pay ransomware hackers in exchange for their pledge to remove from the dark web partially naked exam room photos stolen during a hacking incident.
Healthcare sector entities' reliance on specialty and legacy equipment, including imaging systems and other gear, continues to present attractive targets for threat actors and a growing risk for medical providers, said Frank Catucci, CTO and head of research at security firm Invicti Security.
One Brooklyn Health is facing a proposed class action lawsuit in the wake of a data breach affecting more than 235,000 individuals, which the organization reported to regulators following a cyberattack late last year that disrupted its IT systems and patient services for several weeks.
Federal authorities warn that hackers could take over genetic testing devices manufactured by Illumina, although neither the manufacturer nor the Food and Drug Administration has received reports of attacks. The vulnerabilities affect Illumina's Universal Copy Service software.
Diabetic patients who used a Medtronic smartphone app for managing insulin levels are being told that Google may have collected certain personal information through the sign-in infrastructure. The disclosure comes amid a wave of healthcare providers reassessing their use of third-party tools.
Nurse call systems present a top cybersecurity risk in clinical environments, but so do an array of other similarly connected nonmedical devices commonly found in healthcare settings, says a new research study by security vendor Armis.
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