Cybersecurity

Eighty percent of companies worldwide plan to cut down on the amount of personal data they collect ahead of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect May 25, according to an IBM survey released May 16.

IBM released an advisory to employees worldwide banning the use of removable storage devices, The Register reports.

The Davis Clinic, which is owned by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's physicians organization, sent multiple mass emails exposing 2,800 email addresses primarily belonging  to its patients, according to Chron.

Facebook removed 837 million instances of spam from its website in the first quarter of 2018, according to Guy Rosen, the company's vice president of product management.

Phishing campaigns tended to masquerade as one of three common applications during the first quarter of 2018, according to a Rapid7 report.

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center released an advisory May 8 detailing vulnerabilities discovered in a set of GE Healthcare and Silex Technology devices.

Black Book Market Research released its 2018 ranking of top cybersecurity services and solutions vendors for the healthcare industry May 14.

The Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation is notifying 8,300 clients who were served from 2001 to 2010 that a database containing their demographic data was vulnerable for 10 months.

The San Francisco Department of Public Health notified 895 patients who were seen at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital or Laguna Honda Hospital —  both of which are part of the San Francisco Health Network — that their information may…

Philips reported various vulnerabilities in its Brilliance CT scanners to the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, the center wrote in a May 3 advisory.