Category: cybersecurity

The White House is requesting millions of dollars in emergency funding that would be dedicated to shoring up national cybersecurity, The Washington Post reported March 7. 

Three cybersecurity companies offered U.S. hospitals free protection as the federal government’s concern about Russian cyber retaliation increases as the war in Ukraine escalates, The Washington Post reported.

An employee’s email was compromised at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine last year, potentially exposing the protected health information of 2,920 patients, the health system said this week.

The Senate passed one of the most significant pieces of cyber legislation yet on March 2, that if passed in the House of Representatives, would mandate companies in healthcare, among other “critical industries,” to report cyberattacks and ransom paymen…

Due to increased cyberthreats from outside email, Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health has implemented a new cybersecurity software from Microsoft to combat malicious file attachments.

Morgantown, W.Va.-based Mon Health and its affiliated hospitals suffered an email phishing incident and a data security incident, all within three months.

The American Hospital Association has increased its warnings and cybersecurity measures as concerns for potential Russian cyberattacks grow, Politico reported March 2.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI alerted organizations to two malware threats that can destroy computer systems and render them inoperable.

In February, 26 organizations reported to HHS that 941,680 individuals were affected by data breaches.

The director of the Office for Civil Rights at HHS urged HIPAA-covered healthcare entities to patch up vulnerabilities that give hackers easy access to organization’s computer servers.