Cybersecurity

Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., is notifying 1,216 patients of a breach after it learned that an employee had accessed their medical records without authorization, according to syracuse.com.

CMS has revealed more details about the hack on an Affordable Care Act sign-up portal involving about 75,000 consumers in mid-October, according to TechCrunch.

There were 117 healthcare breaches disclosed during the third quarter of 2018, comprising nearly 4.4 million patient records, according to a report from cybersecurity software company Protenus.

Google recently came under fire after a cybersecurity vulnerability in their Google+ product was discovered to have exposed the private data of millions of users.

Healthcare breaches made up 37 percent of all ransomware incidents in the third quarter, according to a Beazley report.

Almost all provider organizations have outlined procedures for how to address an EHR outage in the wake of an information security incident, according to the 2018 HealthCare's Most Wired survey, which the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives released Oct.…

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework — a computer security guidance developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce — is the most commonly used security framework at hospitals today, according to the 2018 HealthCare's…

A ransomware campaign dubbed SamSam — which targeted major healthcare businesses earlier this year — is continuing to wreak havoc on the industry, according to a report from cybersecurity software firm Symantec.

Eric Hargan, deputy secretary of HHS, unveiled the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center Oct. 29 as part of October's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Severe weather and cyberattacks are the two most pressing safety concerns among hospital leaders, according to a survey from communications software provider Rave Mobile Safety.