The American Hospital Association named John Riggi, a previous employee of the FBI Cyber Division, as its first senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk, the AHA announced Feb. 20.
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The industry hit most frequently with a variety of cyberattacks in 2017 was the healthcare sector, according to a Feb. 20 report released by Beazley.
Recent, unconventional mergers in healthcare, like CVS and Aetna or Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway, have cropped up with hopes to disrupt the industry.
An unauthorized third party may have accessed the protected health information of nearly 1,882 University of Virginia Health System's patients that was stored on a physician's laptop and other devices.
In the ever-volatile world of cryptocurrencies, digital coins like bitcoin or ether gain and lose value in the blink of an eye.
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Eight technology companies and the Munich Security Conference, an international security policy platform based in Russia, signed a joint cybersecurity charter Feb. 16.
Paper and film records mark the most common location of data breaches in hospitals, according to a study published in The American Journal of Managed Care.
Intel is facing at least 32 lawsuits over the Spectre and Meltdown flaws in its chips, which it disclosed in January, according to CNBC.
Officials from the U.S. and U.K. claim the Russian military was directly responsible for the NotPetya cyberattacks last June that caused billions of dollars in global damage, according to BBC.
HHS' Office For Civil Rights is setting a precedent that it doesn't take HIPAA violations lightly by imposing a $100,000 fine on Filefax, a now-closed medical records management company, for a breach that occurred in 2015.