Sixty-one percent of healthcare organizations say they've suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure in the past year, and the vast majority say these IT incidents hurt them financially, according to a study by cybersecurity vendor Netwrix.
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Health CIOs and chief information security officers are preparing for ransomware attacks with something more commonly associated with hobby shops than hospitals: tabletop games.
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine is notifying 33,850 patients that some of their personal health information may have been compromised due to a phishing scheme that targeted employees' email accounts.
Saint Paul, Minn.-based Regions Hospital is notifying 980 patients that some of their personal information has been compromised due to an August data breach.
Methodist Dallas Medical Center is honoring two employees who were killed and ramping up security after an Oct. 22 shooting at the facility.
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Indianapolis-based IU Health is developing a cybersecurity lab to test medical device security.
The healthcare sector has been hit with 25 percent of ransomware attacks so far in 2022, according to FBI data.
Remote work is no longer just a COVID-19-era precaution; rather, it is a permanent option for the changing workforce. However, remote work presents new cybersecurity challenges. TechRadar compiled a list Oct. 24 of four ways that remote work impacts cybersecurity.
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CHI Memorial restored some EHR functions Oct. 21, more than two weeks after a ransomware attack shut down IT systems belonging to its parent company, Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, a CHI Memorial spokesperson told Becker's.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI and HHS issued a joint warning Oct. 21 about ransomware group Daixin Team, which is targeting U.S. healthcare and public health organizations.