Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

The Center for Digital Government recognized 13 entities for their cybersecurity-related contributions Oct. 12.

ONC revealed the "Secure API Server Showdown Challenge" in an Oct. 10 agency blog post by Steven Posnack, director of the ONC's Office of Standards and Technology.

The Health Information Trust Alliance and cybersecurity company Trend Micro unveiled a deception-based threat detection platform called HITRUST Cyber Threat XChange Deceptive Oct. 3.

The protected health information of an estimated 150,000 Americans using services from Layfayette, La.-based Patient Home Monitoring was discovered on a publicly accessible and unprotected Amazon cloud server, according to Gizmodo.

While spying on Russian government hackers, Israeli intelligence officials reportedly caught them exploiting Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab's antivirus software in an effort to pin down code names of American intelligence programs, reports The New York Times.

The Department of Homeland Security appointed Barry West, EDB, to a limited-term senior executive service position as senior adviser and acting deputy CIO, reports FedScoop.

Even though a majority of Americans (82 percent) agree cyberattacks are more of a threat now than they were five years ago, 54 percent feel their data is safe from hackers, according to a ReportLinker survey.

Accenture reportedly exposed sensitive customer data on four misconfigured Amazon cloud servers, which might have allowed those with the web addresses to download the information, according to The Hill.

Two Republican representatives introduced a bill last week that would create an FDA-led public-private working group focused on medical device cybersecurity.

The hack on accounting giant Deloitte, which compromised a server that stored the email addresses of about 350 clients, may have also jeopardized emails of four U.S. government departments, the United Nations and some of the world's biggest multinational corporations,…