Cybersecurity

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's will welcome hackers to its newly developed advisory board, Nextgov reported Nov. 10.

Portsmouth-based Southern Ohio Medical Center is diverting ambulances from its 248-bed hospital after it discovered hackers breached its computer networks, according to a Nov. 11 Facebook post by the hospital.

Although ransomware attacks on hospitals seem ubiquitous, most patients are unaware of attacks on hospitals despite the influence it has on them when choosing a hospital at which to receive care, a study says.

While superheroes protect entire cities from villains in their respective universes, a superhero password might have a hard time preventing account holders from getting hacked, according to a recent Mozilla report.

Two men, one from Ukraine and one from Russia, were charged Nov. 8 in connection with the deployment of REvil ransomware attacks on the U.S. government and businesses, according to the Justice Department. 

Thirteen vulnerabilities have been identified in medical devices made by a range of vendors in the healthcare industry, according to a Nov. 9 CNN report.

Hackers have breached nine organizations — including at least one in the healthcare industry — in efforts to commit cyber espionage, CNN reported Nov. 8.

QRS, a health IT and EHR software company, recently began notifying its provider clients of a cyberattack on a patient portal server that exposed almost 320,000 patients' personal information. 

Hackers are holding on to stolen data they cannot access  with hopes that quantum computers will soon be able to break the codes — a strategy U.S. officials are working to counteract attacks as hackers target hospitals, MIT Technology Review…

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health is notifying 946 patients that billing information linked to their accounts might have been accessed by another person who was incorrectly given access.