West Palm Beach, Fla.-based St. Mary's Medical Center provided a timeline to the cybersecurity incident that took down its phones and computers, WPTV NewsChannel 5 reported April 26.
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In the last six months, several payers, providers and revenue cycle vendors began warning patients about data breaches that affected medical billing information.
FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the current scale of espionage and cybersecurity threats from China were "unprecedented in history," The Hill reported.
Microsoft's $15 billion cybersecurity business is seeing a faster growth rate than all major parts of its company, CNBC reported April 26.
The HHS issued a warning April 20 about an increase in data breaches involving individuals within a healthcare organization, such as employees, contractors and business associates.
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The Great Resignation may be damaging the ability of cybersecurity companies to defend against attacks, as talent shortages and burn out are cited as negatively affecting projects, according to a new report from Software company Splunk.
Chicago-based South Shore Hospital is facing three lawsuits over a December cyberattack that left 115,670 patients' protected information vulnerable, Top Class Actions reported April 22.
Tenet Health experienced a cybersecurity incident that suspended user access to certain information technology applications, causing disruptions to two Florida hospitals.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with authorities from the U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand, issued a new advisory on malicious Russian state-sponsored cyber activity.
A hacker stole $182 million worth of digital assets from a stablecoin project called Beanstalk, The Wall Street Journal reported April 22.