Cybersecurity

In just one year, the sale of ransomware on the dark web grew more than 2,500 percent, meaning cybercrime has become a game everyone wants to play.

Cyberattacks struck hospitals and health systems at an alarming rate this past year — nearly exceeding the rate of one breach per day.

The November cybersecurity newsletter from the HHS Office for Civil Rights discussed how healthcare organizations can tighten termination procedures to curb insider threats.

McAfee, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based cybersecurity company, released its "McAfee Labs 2018 Threats Predictions Report" Nov. 29.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham mailed letters to 652 patients notifying them of an incident at its Viral Hepatitis Clinic which may have exposed their protected health information, the hospital told Becker's Hospital Review.

Amid the massive Uber data breach in which company officials paid hackers $100,000 to cover up the incident affecting 57 million users, three Democratic senators introduced a bill Thursday that would require companies to notify customers of data breaches within…

NHS Digital, the information and technology body of the U.K. National Health Service, launched a £20 million ($26.98 million) project to boost its security capabilities, the IT arm announced Nov. 27.

Privacy incidents at government departments, hospitals and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.

The Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit against Uber over its failure to disclose a data breach that exposed the data of nearly 57 million customers.

The Federal Reserve is exploring a digital currency, similar to bitcoin, although its implementation would be far off in the future, the President and CEO of the Fed's New York branch William Dudley told The Hill.