Cybersecurity

User authentication deficiencies are among the most common high-security risks healthcare organizations face with regard to cybersecurity, according to a CyberIntelligence Insight Bulletin from Clearwater Compliance.

CynergisTek, a provider of healthcare cybersecurity, privacy and information assurance, formed a preferred partnership with Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics company.

A lawsuit filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's office alleges Belmont, Mass.-based McLean Hospital lost personal and health information of over 1,500 patients, employees and brain donors, according to the Boston Herald.

Most healthcare employees are confident in their organization's cybersecurity strategy, despite many facilities suffering multiple ransomware attacks over the past few years, according to a report from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.

BJC HealthCare in St. Louis said Dec. 18 that malware on its website may have exposed credit card information from 5,850 individuals, the St. Louis Business Journal reports.

Chris Joerg, chief information security officer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, shares advice for how to best prevent email phishing attempts targeted at employees as well as some of the IT trends he would like to learn more…

The University of Vermont Health Network-Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital is notifying 32,000 patients after an unauthorized individual breached an employee's email account in October.

Hospitals across the U.S. received email bomb threats on Dec. 13 as part of a large-scale extortion attempt that authorities say is not credible, according to multiple news sources.

Dickon Smart-Gill, CIO and chief information security officer at managed security services provider Proficio in Carlsbad, Calif., shares the big cybersecurity threats he thinks hospitals need to be on the lookout for as well as how technology is keeping up…

Here are the five most-read cybersecurity stories reported by Becker's Hospital Review during 2018: