Cybersecurity

The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre outlined five questions board members should ask their organization's chief information security officers about cybersecurity preparedness.

Jim Garrett, interim chief information security officer at University Hospital of Newark, New Jersey, and CISO at Mount Airy, Md.-based Quality IT Partners Consulting, discusses the digital revolution's effect on healthcare and the new wave of clinical and cloud-based analytical…

Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., canceled all remaining elective surgeries around 4:30 p.m. Sept. 18, after its IT team discovered a computer virus, wane.com reports.

Derek Dudley, director of IT and an IT security officer at Madison (S.D.) Regional Health System, discusses today's biggest threats to hospital data protection and what cyberattacks are in store for the future.

Independence Blue Cross in Pennsylvania is notifying an undisclosed number of plan members about a potential compromise of their protected health information after an employee uploaded a file containing personal data to a website that was publicly accessible for three…

Greg Garcia, executive director for cybersecurity at Washington, D.C.-based Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council, discusses the vulnerability that a lack of investment in cybersecurity can cause for hospital systems, and how C-suite executives can maintain strong methods of data protection.

Amazon is initiating an internal investigation into suspected internal data leaks by some employees for bribes, The Wall Street Journal reports.

An employee at Kings County Hospital's emergency room stole nearly 100 patients' private information and sold it through an encrypted app on his phone, according to New York Daily News.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island notified 1,567 members  that an unnamed vendor responsible for sending members' benefits explanations  breached their personal healthcare information, according to a media statement shared with Becker's Hospital Review.

The Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific in Honolulu is notifying 40,800 patients to a potential data breach after it fell victim to a ransomware attack in June, according to HHS' Office for Civil Rights breach portal.