Cybersecurity

Six vulnerabilities have been found in GE Healthcare devices, which, if exploited, could allow hackers to make them unusable or interfere with their functionality, according to federal officials. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and…

A patient of Health Quest is suing the Lagrangeville, N.Y.-based health system for allegedly failing to safeguard her protected health information after it was exposed in a phishing attack, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

Vorhees, N.J.-based The Center for Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Health announced Jan. 21 that it is alerting patients about a security incident that may have exposed their protected health information.

As cyberattacks become more common, hospitals and health systems should not only be worried about the loss of data, but also the possible loss of life, according to the World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Risk Report and cited by Yahoo…

Microsoft released a notice Jan. 22 about a data breach within an internal customer support database used for support case analytics.

Cybersecurity company Safebreach Labs discovered new ransomware that if exploited can compromise Microsoft Windows' Encrypting File System.

The FBI has seized the website WeLeakInfo.com, which was known for selling access to billions of pieces of hacked information, according to ZDNet.

Adventist Health Simi Valley (Calif.) began alerting patients Jan. 6 that their protected health information may have been exposed in a phishing attack.

Amazon Web Services, IBM and Microsoft are among the big tech companies to make deals with hospitals and health systems to analyze patients' medical records in order to develop new solutions, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The bill to restore New Orleans' computer systems after a December 2019 cyberattack is currently about $7 million and continues to climb, Mayor Latoya Cantrell told local FOX affiliate WVUE.