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Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
Ipswich Hospital in England reportedly disciplined two staff members who accessed Ed Sheeran's patient information without a legitimate reason, according to the BBC.
HHS' Office for Civil Rights is planning to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in November to get the public's input on a policy change that would share HIPAA settlements with the victims of their respective data breaches, according…
South Bend, Ind.-based Allied Physicians of Michiana is recovering from a May 17 ransomware attack involving the SamSam variant.
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.
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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.