Cybersecurity

The federal government has ordered all of its agencies to develop plans to wipe software by Moscow, Russia-based Kaspersky Lab from their computer systems, reports The New York Times.

By 2022, the information security sector will be short 1.8 million workers, according to the 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded up to $50 million to the agency's national laboratories to advance research and development of cybersecurity and resilience tools for the country's critical energy infrastructure.

Some cybercriminals are taking advantage of recent widespread ransomware attacks to deploy scams that mimic ransomware, according to WFMY-TV.

Ventura, Calif.-based Community Memorial Health System plans to notify patients after discovering a phishing scam possibly exposed their personal information, the Ventura County Star reports.

Police have taken an unidentified suspect into custody following reports of an active shooter in the Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, which caused the hospital to evacuate and go on lockdown Tuesday afternoon.

Those looking to promote electronic exchange of healthcare information might benefit from looking to a 20-year-old piece of legislation, according to a Health Affairs op-ed by Lucia Savage, chief privacy and regulatory officer at Omada Health.

Aurora-based Children's Hospital Colorado on Sept. 8 began notifying almost 3,400 patient families of a privacy incident that possibly exposed their protected health information.

The Ohio Department of Health cautioned residents about a recent phone scheme in which scammers pose as state health department staff, WHIO-TV reports.

A Canadian hospital fired an employee after she was caught inappropriately accessing patient medical records, according to an audit and investigation by the Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner.