Cybersecurity

Medtronic has issued an urgent recall for the remote control of certain insulin pumps because it is vulnerable to hackers.

U.S. News & World Reportreleased its 2021-21 rankings for the best hospitals in the country July 27, with Mayo Clinic earning the top spot for the sixth consecutive year. Below are brief bios of the chief information security officers at…

Nearly 54,000 OSF HealthCare patients' data was exposed during a cybersecurity attack on the Peoria, Ill.-based health system's computer systems earlier this year. 

Ransomware attacks will continue to be a threat for organizations even as the federal government aggressively tries to stamp down hacker groups, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 5.

Hackers are demanding ransom from Johnson Memorial Hospital as the Franklin, Ind.-based health system grapples with an ongoing cyberattack, according to an Oct. 5 WTHR 13 report.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an insider risk mitigation toll Oct. 5 to help organizations assess the vulnerabilities of insider threats.

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare began notifying patients Oct. 1 that their protected health information was exposed for more than six weeks during an attack on its IT systems earlier this year. 

A former patient of Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare filed a class action lawsuit against Elekta over an April data breach that affected 170 health systems, according to court documents obtained by Becker's.

It took just two minutes for hackers to breach a hospital's network and deploy ransomware on Franklin, Ind.-based Johnson Memorial Health, according to an Oct. 4 Daily Journal report.

The White House is assembling 30 countries to meet this month to collaborate on a global strategy aimed at addressing the threat ransomware brings to economic and national security, CNN reported Oct. 1.