Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Executives across industries are increasingly turning to the cloud to cut costs and enhance scalability. In fact, the shift away from on-premise data centers and into the cloud is expected to affect $1 trillion in IT spending across the globe…

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services mailed letters to nearly 6,000 people who underwent routine drug screening for employment, intern and volunteer opportunities at its agency, notifying them of a recent incident in which a spreadsheet containing…

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, MD, is tacking on another responsibility: editor-in-chief of the online, peer-review journal Blockchain in Healthcare Today.

Cottage Health System, a Santa Barbara-based healthcare organization, agreed to pay the state $2 million to settle allegations it failed to establish reasonable safeguards to protect patient medical information, which led to the exposure of nearly 50,000 medical records. 

Uber reportedly paid hackers $100,000 to cover up a cyberattack that affected 57 million riders and drivers in October 2016, according to Bloomberg.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a guidance urging businesses to act on an Intel Corp. alert addressing a security flaw in its computer chips, which are used in eight types of processors in business computers sold by major…

High court cases involving insider theft of data increased by 25 percent in one year, a London-based law firm told InfoSecurity.

The U.S. Department of Defense exposed some web-monitoring data on a publicly accessible cloud server, the agency confirmed to CNN Tech via email.

Amazon introduced a new version of its web services targeting the U.S. Intelligence Community, dubbed AWS Secret Region.

Cybersecurity Ventures estimates ransomware damages will cost the global economy $5 billion by the end of the year and rise to nearly $11.5 billion in 2019.