There’s an axiom in the cybersecurity world that there are three types of people: those who have been hacked, those who will be hacked, and those who are being hacked right now and just don’t know it yet. When it comes to…
With personal patient data being passed between contractors, service providers and satellite offices, cybersecurity experts expect healthcare to remain a target for data thieves. In the first six months of 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services reported 146 data…
Judges around the U.S. are wrestling with whether hacked companies should have to pay customers when their personal information gets exposed. So far, the answer has mostly been no. But, some federal judges are letting consumer lawsuits proceed,…
A cyber attack that crippled Washington, DC-area healthcare provider MedStar this week is another reminder of vulnerabilities that hospitals face. The MedStar attack came a month after a Los Angeles hospital paid hackers $17,000 to regain control of its…
Hackers are indiscriminate when it comes to stealing personal data. The victims in one of the latest healthcare data breaches turned out to be the doctors and nurses, not the patients. The FBI is investigating a data breach of the…
Cybersecurity experts are warning that small businesses are fast becoming the favorite target of cybercriminals. “SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) have not historically been the target of cybercrime but in 2015 something drastically changed,” Toni Allen, UK head of client…
As seen on Insurance Journal: Your medical information is worth 10 times more than your credit card number on the black market. Last month, the FBI warned healthcare providers to guard against cyber attacks after one of the largest U.S….
Publication Date: 3/16/2014 Source: Baltimore Sun (MD) In the two weeks between recent revelations that hackers stole data on students, alumni and faculty from the University of Maryland, College Park and the Johns Hopkins University, nearly 360,000 records were swiped…
