Cybersecurity

A limited number of information services at Wellsville, N.Y.-based Jones Memorial Hospital have been offline for an unspecified number of days following a cyberattack, according to a notice on the hospital's website.

Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based cybersecurity company, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Dec. 18 over the decision to ban Kaspersky Lab's software at government agencies, NPR reports.

Operating divisions within HHS displayed configuration management and access control vulnerabilities, according to an HHS Office of Inspector General report released earlier this month.

Cyberattacks targeted hospitals and health systems at an alarming rate in 2017 — nearly exceeding the rate of one breach per day. Increasingly for healthcare organizations, preparing for a cyberattack is a question of when, not if.

As bitcoin becomes a household name, other types of digital currency that thrive off blockchain technology are gaining legitimacy, too.

After a Farmingdale, N.Y.-based beverage maker Long Island Iced Tea Corp. pivoted its business structure toward blockchain technology, which included revising its name to include the word "blockchain," its stock spiked more than 200 percent at the open of trading,…

Federal regulators are allowing cyber insurer Beazley Group to cover a $2.3 million HIPAA fine on behalf of its bankrupt client, 21st Century Oncology, according to Healthcare Info Security.

Although healthcare organizations in 2017 saw an average of one data breach per day, November's average dipped slightly and noted 28 incidents, according to a Protenus report.

New York City-based New York University Langone Health is notifying roughly 2,000 patients after a binder containing presurgical insurance authorizations was mistakenly recycled by its cleaning company Oct. 17. 

The volatile cryptocurrency bitcoin fell Tuesday after Coinbase, the leading platform for exchanging bitcoin in the U.S., rolled out support for bitcoin cash, the continuation of the bitcoin project, CNBC reports.