Privacy incidents at government departments, medical device suppliers, hospitals and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
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.
The majority of state and local health and human services departments have adopted a cybersecurity framework that incorporates national standards, according to a joint survey by CompTIA and the American Public Human Services Association.
A team of Check Point researchers discovered a botnet, dubbed "IoTroop," which has infected an estimated one million organizations across the globe, according to a report the San Carlos, Calif.-based cybersecurity company released Oct. 19.
The U.K.'s National Audit Office released details Oct. 27 regarding its investigation into the May WannaCry cyberattack that wrecked havoc on a number of its hospitals.
Bad Rabbit, the ransomware that is spreading across Russia and Eastern Europe this week, allegedly used a leaked hacking tool built by the National Security Agency, according to The Hill.
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John Zangardi, PhD, will transition from acting CIO at the Department of Defense to CIO at the Department of Homeland Security, the White House announced Oct. 26.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine delivered email warnings to its members regarding a recently-surfaced impostor website, an ASRM spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review Oct. 26.
Kaspersky Lab is refuting claims Russian intelligence used its antivirus software to spy on U.S. intelligence in its latest review of its telemetry logs, published on the company's website.
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Nearly 1 in 3 CEOs have used their company email address to register for a service that was later breached, compromising their password among other personal information, according to an F-Secure report.