North Platte, Neb.-based Great Plains Health is nearly recovered following a ransomware attack in November 2019 that encrypted the hospital's computers, according to local NBC affiliate KNOP.
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South Portland, Maine-based Spectrum Healthcare Partners is notifying 11,308 patients of an email incident that may have exposed their protected health information.
Though just a few days old, the California Consumer Privacy Act — passed in 2018 and enacted Jan. 1 — has caused consumer privacy experts to question its potential. The bill is designed to give consumers more control over their…
Conversation-hacking is a new phishing technique where hackers infiltrate an existing email thread and pose as someone else in the conversation, such as a CEO, assistant or other employee, according to ZDNet.
As cyberattacks become more common, hospitals and health systems must become proactive in their approach to cybersecurity.
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A vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system could allow cybercriminals to breach or spy on computer networks if exploited, according to the National Security Agency and cited by The Wall Street Journal.
Google Health leader David Feinberg, MD, continued to defend the company's partnership with St. Louis-based Ascension, nicknamed Project Nightingale, at the StartUp Health Festival, an event for biotech entrepreneurs, according to Forbes.
Franklin, Tenn.-based SouthEast Eye Specialists Group began notifying 13,000 patients that their protected health information may have been exposed in a data breach.
Chico, Calif.-based Enloe Medical Center continues to treat patients using back-up, offline protocols after suffering from a ransomware attack Jan. 2, according to the Chicoer.
After multiple failures and successes to partner with healthcare organizations, today Google has access to tens of millions of patient health records in three-quarters of U.S., according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.