President Donald Trump is calling for “unprecedented coordination across government and the private sector” to increase the nation’s cybersecurity. “Our adversaries and cyber criminals … disrupt critical services like healthcare, banking, food supply, and water treatment,” Mr. Trump wrote in…
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Forty-four lawsuits against Kettering (Ohio) Health over a 2025 ransomware attack have been consolidated into a single complaint. The 14-hospital system was struck by the Interlock ransomware group in May 2025, causing the organization to shut down all 600 of…
HHS has introduced a new cybersecurity module in a tool kit used by thousands of healthcare organizations. The agency’s Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response updated the Risk Identification and Site Criticality 2.0 Toolkit, aka RISC, which is employed by…
Honolulu-based University of Hawaii Cancer Center reported that nearly 1.2 million individuals may have had their data compromised in a 2025 ransomware attack. The organization discovered the cyberattack in August, and subsequently paid ransom to the cybercriminals to prevent them…
When a cyberattack knocked the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s digital systems offline, care teams at its Cancer Center and Research Institute turned a conference room into a command center, gathering around paper charts to coordinate treatment for cancer patients.…
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Hospitals and health systems should increase cybersecurity and physical security vigilance amid the ongoing conflict involving Iran, John Riggi, national adviser for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association, told Becker’s. The war involving the United States, Israel and…
Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center has restored its phone service a week and a half after a ransomware attack crippled the health system’s communications. UMMC brought its phones back online March 2 and started calling back patients to reschedule…
A former employee of Microsoft subsidiary Nuance has pleaded guilty to a 2023 data breach involving over 1.2 million patient records at Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger. Max Vance, 46, of California, agreed to the guilty plea Feb. 27 for one count…
The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson said Feb. 27 it is continuing to restore its systems and plans to resume normal clinic operations statewide next week following a recent cyberattack. Clinics across Mississippi will return to normal operations…
The American Hospital Association is recommending that hospitals and health systems address a cybersecurity vulnerability in Cisco networking software. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and international partners released guidance Feb. 25 on fixing the flaw being targeted by…