Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Sheryl Rose, chief information security officer and senior vice president at Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives, discusses the evolution of the CISO role and how hospital systems can implement the best practices for data protection.

Reliable Respiratory in Norwood, Mass., discovered unusual activity on an employee's email account in July, which may have allowed hackers to access an undisclosed number of patients' protected health information.

A new strain of ransomware, dubbed "Barack Obama's Everlasting Blue Blackmail Virus," uses a photograph of former President Barack Obama as part of its extortion scam, Bleeping Computer reports.

Dan Costantino, chief information security officer at Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania Health System, discusses the idea of implementing data protection as a team effort instead of an individual role.

Chief information security officers from six leading hospitals and health systems in the U.S. have teamed up to form the Provider Third Party Risk Management Council.

Messages that contain spam and malware make up 13 percent of emails, according to a Mimecast report.

WellCare Health Plans, a contractor that administers Missouri Medicaid plans, accidentally exposed the personal health information of 19,570 children in a mailing error, The Kansas City Star reports.

Todd Plesco, chief information security officer at Irvine, Calif.-based PrescribeWellness, discusses the need for ethics in data protection and how hospitals should handle threats to cybersecurity.

Philips released a security alert Aug. 21 about "resource exhaustion" flaws that put some of its central patient monitoring systems at risk for denial-of-service attacks, HealthcareInfoSecurity reports.

Google's parent company Alphabet launched Chronicle, a cybersecurity company, in January. Since then, the company has largely been silent about its work, until CNBC spoke with Chronicle CEO Stephen Gillett.