Cybersecurity

There are six major ransomware threats hitting businesses this year, according to a Symantec report.

The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council named Gregory T. Garcia its first executive director for cybersecurity, effective Oct. 1.

Since the number one cause of cyberattacks is insider accidents, healthcare leaders are increasingly searching for more effective ways of training employees on cybersecurity, reports TechRepublic.

The Center for Digital Government recognized 13 entities for their cybersecurity-related contributions Oct. 12.

ONC revealed the "Secure API Server Showdown Challenge" in an Oct. 10 agency blog post by Steven Posnack, director of the ONC's Office of Standards and Technology.

The Health Information Trust Alliance and cybersecurity company Trend Micro unveiled a deception-based threat detection platform called HITRUST Cyber Threat XChange Deceptive Oct. 3.

The protected health information of an estimated 150,000 Americans using services from Layfayette, La.-based Patient Home Monitoring was discovered on a publicly accessible and unprotected Amazon cloud server, according to Gizmodo.

While spying on Russian government hackers, Israeli intelligence officials reportedly caught them exploiting Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab's antivirus software in an effort to pin down code names of American intelligence programs, reports The New York Times.

The Department of Homeland Security appointed Barry West, EDB, to a limited-term senior executive service position as senior adviser and acting deputy CIO, reports FedScoop.

Even though a majority of Americans (82 percent) agree cyberattacks are more of a threat now than they were five years ago, 54 percent feel their data is safe from hackers, according to a ReportLinker survey.