Cybersecurity

Hospitals can't provide high-quality care if patient misidentification occurs, as the errors resulting from misidentification can have significant consequences for patient safety and the organizations' financial health.

The names and Social Security numbers of Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital employees who had not received flu shots were exposed in an internal email to staff, The Post Star reports. 

A jury is South Dakota awarded Jacqueline Krouse $30,000 after finding her ex-husband, who is a physician, inappropriately accessed her medical records, The Daily Republic reports.

Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based data security and cybersecurity company, released its "Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2018" report Dec. 5.

Though ransomware attacks have been highly publicized, the majority of cyberattacks exploited a combination of native software from a victim's system, memory-only malware and stolen credentials, according to the 2017 "Cyber Intrusion Services Casebook" from CrowdStrike.

Hackers have emptied a digital wallet belonging to the cryptocurrency company NiceHash, leading it to shut down its website Wednesday, according to Business Insider.

A political ad campaign ran on Facebook in September, targeting users over the age of 40 labeled as "very liberal" that tricked them into clicking on a headline about President Donald Trump's approval ratings in order to launch a malware…

Bitcoin is continuing to skyrocket, as it surpassed the $16,000 mark in less than two days following a 20 percent plunge last week, CNBC reports.

Officials at Stanford (Calif.) University are investigating three instances in which misconfigured permissions on file-sharing platforms may have exposed student and employee personal and financial information, a university spokeswoman confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review Dec. 5.

The Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine Minneapolis fell victim to a ransomware attack Oct. 3, which may have compromised some of its patients' protected health information.