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.
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.
In the ever-volatile world of cryptocurrencies, digital coins like bitcoin or ether gain and lose value in the blink of an eye.
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.
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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.
The Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs released a report Jan. 31 investigating alleged security and funding issues with a guest Wi-Fi network at the Orlando (Fla.) VA Medical Center.
Equifax named Jamil Farshchi its new chief information security officer, the Atlanta-based consumer credit reporting agency announced Feb. 13.
The organizers of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, confirmed Sunday a cyberattack occurred during this year's opening ceremonies, which took place Feb. 9, according to Reuters.