Cybersecurity

In 2017, "bad bots" accounted for 21.8 percent of all website traffic, up 9.5 percent from 2016, according to a Distil Networks report.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights highlighted the importance of an organization having a contingency plan in place to recover after a cyberattack in its March newsletter.

The Mississippi State Department of Health sent  letters March 26 to an undisclosed number of Mississippi residents after it learned an employee mistakenly emailed an Excel spreadsheet containing patients' protected health information to J Michael Consulting, a CDC contractor in…

A researcher at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management claims more than 2,100 patient deaths each year can be attributed to hospital data breaches, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Email, internet, the majority of phone lines  and several other electronic systems at Geneva, N.Y.-based Finger Lakes Health have been restored after a ransomware attack shut them down March 18, a FLH spokesperson told Becker's Hospital Review.

After ransomware struck the city of Atlanta's computer network March 22, its systems are still not fully operational, according to The Washington Post.

The cybersecurity team at Health Care Service Corp., an insurance agency, goes to great lengths to ensure its customers' — which includes the records of the nearly 15 million Blue Cross Blue Shield members in five states — data are…

The Federal Trade Commission will investigate how Facebook protects its users' data, the agency said March 26.

Barkly, a cybersecurity company focused on endpoint protection, released its 2018 Malware Trends Forecast, which details malware evolution during the past year.

A team of researchers dug through recycling bins to study hospital information security practices, uncovering almost 2,000 items with sensitive personal health information in less than two years.