A new report released May 18 outlines the potential risks of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, which has health system leaders on edge because of the AI’s ability to detect and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities Here are six things to know from the…
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is reorganizing its Office for Civil Rights, restoring separate divisions focused on civil rights and conscience and religious freedom. The restructuring returns the office to a program-based model with three divisions: the…
A Rutgers-led study found hospitals that use third-party tracking pixels on their websites were significantly more likely to experience data breaches. Researchers at Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick analyzed 12 years of website data from 1,201 hospitals and found…
Clinicians across the country are using AI tools their organizations never approved, often to solve real, urgent problems. The phenomenon, known as shadow AI, sits at the center of a governance challenge that is growing faster than most health systems…
Three health systems took home honors at the 2026 CSO Cybersecurity Awards. The May 11 ceremony in Nashville, Tenn., recognized “security initiatives that delivered measurable results and not just innovation in isolation — across areas such as AI compliance and…
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has rolled out an initiative to fortify critical infrastructure sectors’ cybersecurity against attacks from nation-state threat actors, the American Hospital Association reported. The project underscores the importance of preemptive isolation and recovery planning when…
A federal lawsuit tied to Prospect Medical Holdings’ 2023 data breach has been voluntarily dismissed. According to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, plaintiffs and Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings jointly filed a…
Hospital nurses feel unprepared to safely manage patient care during prolonged cyber-related technology outages, a May 6 report from Black Book Research found. The report, titled “The Nurse Cyber-Downtime Gap,” surveyed 480 registered nurses and examined hospital cyber-downtime readiness from…
Healthcare was the most targeted industry in a recent phishing campaign detected by Microsoft, the company said. From April 14-16, the phishing emails targeted over 35,000 users across more than 13,000 organizations in 26 countries, the majority (92%) in the…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency and international cybersecurity arms have issued a guide about the careful adoptoin of agentic AI. “The guidance primarily focuses on large language model-based agentic AI systems and highlights key security…