Cybersecurity

Vacancies at HHS are feeding into the nation's healthcare cybersecurity struggles, Politico reports.

Half of phishing victims use Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail as their email provider, according to recent research led by Google.

Equifax spent $87.5 million in the third quarter on efforts to recover from a massive data breach that affected 143 million consumers, according to a disclosure on the company's earnings statement released Nov. 9.

The California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development formed a new Cyber-Health Information Technology Advisory Board.

Amazon Web Services has bolstered the encryption and security features on S3, its data storage service, according to a Nov. 6 company blog post by AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr.

As cybercrime becomes more sophisticated and widespread, Safehaven.com expects economic damage from cybercrime could exceed $6 trillion by 2021.

Two of the largest independent communities within England's National Health Service developed a system to notify other NHS hospitals of cybersecurity incidents and enable information sharing on response tips, Digital Health reports.

Three researchers from Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University wrote to JAMA Internal Medicine to question the findings of a recent study on hospital data breaches.

Amid an IT talent shortage in an ever-evolving cyberthreat landscape, businesses and hospitals often make investment mistakes when it comes to cybersecurity, according to a joint Information Systems Security Association and Enterprise Strategy Group report released Wednesday.

Optium Cyber Systems, a company focused on processes to identify and address cybersecurity vulnerabilities in an organization's IT infrastructure, established an advisory board.