Connected medical devices are the Achilles’ heel of healthcare orgs

The rising adoption of connected medical devices is accelerating cyberattacks, according to Capterra’s Medical IoT Survey of healthcare IT professionals. The survey also reveals that 67% of healthcare cyberattacks impact patient data and 48% impact pat… Continue reading Connected medical devices are the Achilles’ heel of healthcare orgs

All of Medibank’s stolen data leaked, Australia increases maximum penalties for data breaches

Australian health insurance provider Medibank has confirmed that another batch of the customer data stolen in the recent breach has been leaked. “We are conducting further analysis on the files today and at this stage believe there are 6 zipped f… Continue reading All of Medibank’s stolen data leaked, Australia increases maximum penalties for data breaches

Rallying cybersecurity and healthcare IT to support patient safety

The expansion of cyber-physical systems in healthcare, particularly the IP “heartbeats” dispersed across hospital networks, has stretched cybersecurity beyond its IT legacy of monitoring for downed email and site uptimes at a clinic. As we look to expe… Continue reading Rallying cybersecurity and healthcare IT to support patient safety

A Digital Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross wants some digital equivalent to the iconic red cross, to alert would-be hackers that they are accessing a medical network.

The emblem wouldn’t provide technical cybersecurity protection to hospitals, Red Cross infrastructure or other medical providers, but it would signal to hackers that a cyberattack on those protected networks during an armed conflict would violate international humanitarian law, experts say, Tilman Rodenhäuser, a legal adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross, said at a panel discussion hosted by the organization on Thursday…

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Reporting Healthcare Cyber Incidents Under New CIRCIA Rules

Numerous high-profile cybersecurity events in recent years, such as the Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds attacks, spurred the US government to implement new legislation. In response to the growing threat, President Biden signed the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) in March 2022. While the law has passed, many healthcare organizations remain […]

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