By Munawar Abadullah – Cyber-crimes are at an all-time high and will continue to rise in popularity for as long as organisations adopt a passive approach to online security. While some healthcare organisations look at cyber security as a “back burner”, the hacking industry is evolving to the point where anyone can become a successful hacker.
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By Art Gross – As you may be aware, a global ransomware attack, called WannaCry, started on Friday May 12, 2017 and is continuing. The attack has affected 200,000 Microsoft Windows based machines in over 150 countries.
By Joseph Opacki – A bold statement, I know. After all, how could things get worse? Over the past two years healthcare has been targeted and breached more than any other industry. Fines for negligence have become commonplace, and reached new highs in 2016. And yet I’m confident in my prediction. Here’s why.
Initial attacks of ransomware WannaCry began on May 12, 2017. The cyrptoworm has spread through nearly 100 countries. What is WannaCry and what do you need to know about it and protecting yourself from it?
Annual Threat Report from Symantec details how simple tactics led to unprecedented outcomes. Cyber criminals revealed new levels of ambition in 2016 .
By D’Arcy Gue – It’s worth remembering that 2016 was dubbed the “year of data security” after 90 percent of healthcare providers suffered data breaches in the previous two years. In particular, the Anthem breach of late 2014/early 2015 got everyone’s attention for the sheer magnitude (around 80 million records) of the hack.
SecurityScorecard released its 2016 Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Report – a comprehensive analysis exposing alarming cybersecurity vulnerabilities across 700 healthcare organizations.
By Susan Biddle – The havoc that Ransomware creates is real, its immediate impact and implications clear: workstations are disabled, files are encrypted and systems are shut down.
By Bob Grant – HHS Office for Civil Rights has released new guidance about how HIPAA-beholden entities can better equip themselves to deal with ransomware attacks. Ransomware is a targeted kind of malware attack that takes data ‘hostage.’ The attackers responsible then give the organization a countdown to a time at which they expect to receive a ‘ransom’ in exchange for restored access to the withheld data.