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A New York law firm has agreed to pay $200,000 in penalties to the state because it failed to protect the private and electronic health information of approximately 114,000 patients. How did the data theft happen? Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy and Bach (HPM… Continue reading New York law firm gets fined $200k for failing to protect health data
Critical vulnerabilities discovered in OpenEMR can be chained to gain code execution on a server running a vulnerable version of the popular open-source electronic health record system. Discovered, privately reported and now publicly documented by rese… Continue reading Critical OpenEMR vulnerabilities may allow attackers to access patients’ health records
In this interview with Help Net Security, Paige Hanson, Chief of Cyber Safety Education at NortonLifeLock, talks about the risks posed by medical ID theft, the repercussions of such criminal activity, and what people as well as organizations can do to … Continue reading Why you should worry about medical ID theft
A new framework for assessing the privacy, technical security, usability and clinical assurance and safety of digital health technologies has been created by the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ORCH… Continue reading Is that health app safe to use? A new framework aims to provide an answer
The health care industry is one of the most popular and lucrative targets for cyberattacks and malicious activity. Health care organizations always present as an attractive proposition to hackers as they possess high volumes of sensitive information about patients and rely on highly vulnerable medical devices. Advancements in medical procedures and the growth in digital […]
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Health care data security has always been a concern. But in the last year, health care and digital safety have become even more urgent topics in government, business and in the public at large. The reason is the sudden and enormous rise in attacks, both in number and impact. Where are those health care cyberattacks […]
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Every so often, security researchers discover confidential medical images left exposed online. To help healthcare organizations prevent this from happening in the future, NIST has published NIST SP 1800-24: Securing Picture Archiving and Communication … Continue reading New NIST guide helps healthcare orgs securely deploy PACS
A six-month investigation by CybelAngel discovered unsecured sensitive patient data available for third parties to access for blackmail, fraud or other nefarious purposes. Continue reading 45 Million Medical Images Left Exposed Online
Healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) have been busy increasing their network and systems security in the last year, though there is still much room for improvement, according to Forescout researchers. This is the good news: the percentage of device… Continue reading Healthcare network security is slowly improving
Personal information of roughly 150 patients of Toronto-based St. Michael’s Hospital has been stolen in a data breach, allegedly by a former third-party employee accused of taking them while on duty. According to a letter obtained by a local news chann… Continue reading Former Medical Transcriptionist Accused of Trying to Extort Toronto Hospital Using Stolen Patient Data