Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

HHS Office of Inspector General determined the State of North Carolina, which contracts with Falls Church, Va.-based CSRA to operate its Medicaid claims processing systems, did not implement adequate federal information security requirements for safeguarding data, according to a recent…

Philips issued a notification disclosing security vulnerabilities in its Philips DoseWise Portal application Aug. 17.

Almost half — 47.2 percent — of healthcare breaches were caused by hacking in July, according to according to a Protenus report.

Members of the cybersecurity sector rallied to support Marcus Hutchins, the cyber researcher credited with stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack in May, after he was arrested earlier this month for allegedly creating and distributing a banking malware called Kronos.

The Department of Labor temporarily shut down its employee injury and illness reporting portal Aug. 16, following a "potential compromise" of electronic data, reports Bloomberg BNA.

Google reportedly awarded a high school student in Uruguay $10,000 after he discovered a security flaw in Google App Engine, according to ZDNet.

 The U.S. Department of State experienced a systemwide email outage to its unclassified email system Friday, according to The Hill.

One Republican state lawmaker is asking the Trump administration to take action against North Korea with a massive, coordinated cyberattack.

Attacks on Microsoft user accounts have increased 300 percent during the past year, according to volume 22 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report.

Two Democratic lawmakers are calling for an independent investigation into the Federal Communications Commission's response to a May cyberattack.