1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1015+ words) It is hard for hospitals to catch up with the transition to quantum-safe encryption when some of their systems are stuck at the turn of the millennium, said security leaders at major hospital networks. See Also: Reduce Cloud Risk in…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (617+ words) Data Privacy, Data Security, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Rotting paper mental health records recovered from abandoned psychiatric hospitals in Ireland have triggered multiple fines for data protection violations. See Also: How Enterprise Browsers Enhance Security and Efficiency Ireland's privacy…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (317+ words) Data Privacy, Data Security, Fraud Management & Cybercrime Denver-based DaVita, which operates more than 3,000 kidney dialysis centers in the United States and 14 other countries, has agreed to pay $15 million to settle proposed class action litigation stemming from a 2025 Interlock ransomware gang…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (583+ words) Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery, Data Breach Notification, Data Privacy A cyberattack this week that disrupted medical technology maker Boston Scientific's global operations is affecting remote monitoring capabilities of some of its new cardiac devices. See Also: How Data-Centric Security…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (702+ words) Anti-Phishing, DMARC, Cybercrime, Data Breach Notification Dozens of U.S. healthcare systems are warning patients about potential email phishing, text and phone scams involving their MyChart patient portals. Electronic health record vendor Epic, the maker of MyChart, has also issued a public…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (368+ words) Nonprofit health system AnMed has confirmed cybercriminals stole information in a July cyberattack that disrupted its IT environment and patient services for several weeks. The organization is also warning patients not to fall for potential fraud, payment and other scams…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (726+ words) Cybercrime, Data Breach Notification, Data Privacy Genomics testing firm Baylor Genetics is notifying nearly 310,000 people and counting about a June hack that compromised sensitive patient information including test results and employee data. The incident is the latest in a rash…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (372+ words) Cloud-based electronic health records vendor CareCloud is notifying nearly 3.8 million people that their personal and health information was potentially stolen in a March hacking incident involving one of its Amazon Web Services cloud environments. See Also: Rise of Malicious AI…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (396+ words) Frontier artificial intelligence models can identify network vulnerabilities and compress cyberattacks from days or weeks into seconds, raising the stakes for healthcare. A new Coalition for Health AI cyber task force is developing defensive playbooks for these machine-speed threats, said…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (213+ words) Healthcare organizations have become more attractive targets for attackers even as their security budgets remain constrained, said Bezawit Sumner, CISO and senior director of security and compliance at CRISP Shared Services. That leaves teams competing for the same talent pool…...