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Cybersecurity

After taking a brief hiatus from accepting bitcoin payments on its Windows and Xbox online stores, Microsoft is welcoming the option back, Fortune reports.

Though 20 percent of RNs claim their facilities experienced a data breach, only a quarter of them have seen changes in the way their companies handle data security and patient privacy over the past year, according to a survey administered by…

A limited amount of patients' personal information may have been exposed when Framingham, Mass.-based Charles River Medical Associates discovered an unencrypted, portable hard drive was missing from its bone density testing workstation in November 2017, a hospital spokesman confirmed to…

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Three states — California, Oregon and Indiana — have filed class-action lawsuits against Intel after security researchers revealed vulnerabilities in its computer chips last week, according to The Hill.  

Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration is notifying 30,000 Medicaid enrollees their personal information may have been compromised when one of the agency's employees was the victim of a phishing email attack, AHCA confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

There were 140 data breaches reported to HHS' Office for Civil Rights breach portal as IT or hacking events in 2017 — 36 of which were ransomware related, according to cybersecurity firm Cryptonite's 2017 Health Care Cyber Research Report.

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