The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned of vulnerabilities within Medtronic's MyCareLink Smart device, which monitors pacemaker activity and sends information to clinicians.
Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
The volume and intensity of cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems increased during the second half of 2020, and experts believe there is more to come.
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for improperly accessing the Healthcare.gov database and stealing more than 8,000 consumers' personal information for financial crimes.
Microsoft's 365 Defender research team has released an update about a persistent malware campaign capable of affecting tens of thousands of devices per day.
HHS' Office for Civil Rights released proposed modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule Dec. 10.
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Hackers are becoming more sophisticated with their attacks to cause destruction in a shorter period of time, according to an online report in ZDNet.
A Colorado health department surveyor lost an external drive with copies of patient records from Cedar Springs Hospital.
Albuquerque, N.M.-based Presbyterian Health Plan recently mailed letters to more than 3,000 members of its health plan to notify them of a previous misdirected mailing incident that may have exposed some of the protected health information.
The CDC's voluntary text messaging system that COVID-19 vaccine recipients can use to report side effects contains security vulnerabilities, the Washington Post reports.
A vendor at a Louisiana-based surgical hospital that processes payments had a cyberattack that breached patient information.