Equifax spent $87.5 million in the third quarter on efforts to recover from a massive data breach that affected 143 million consumers, according to a disclosure on the company's earnings statement released Nov. 9.
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The California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development formed a new Cyber-Health Information Technology Advisory Board.
Amazon Web Services has bolstered the encryption and security features on S3, its data storage service, according to a Nov. 6 company blog post by AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr.
As cybercrime becomes more sophisticated and widespread, Safehaven.com expects economic damage from cybercrime could exceed $6 trillion by 2021.
Two of the largest independent communities within England's National Health Service developed a system to notify other NHS hospitals of cybersecurity incidents and enable information sharing on response tips, Digital Health reports.
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Three researchers from Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University wrote to JAMA Internal Medicine to question the findings of a recent study on hospital data breaches.
Amid an IT talent shortage in an ever-evolving cyberthreat landscape, businesses and hospitals often make investment mistakes when it comes to cybersecurity, according to a joint Information Systems Security Association and Enterprise Strategy Group report released Wednesday.
Optium Cyber Systems, a company focused on processes to identify and address cybersecurity vulnerabilities in an organization's IT infrastructure, established an advisory board.
Muncie-based Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital is notifying some of its patients after a bag containing billing paperwork with patient information was found at an intersection in Muncie, according to a notice on the organization's website.
Staunton, Va.-based Valley Family Medicine is notifying 8,500 patients of a security incident after two employees printed and misused a mailing list, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.