by kcarten | Mar 31, 2021 | News
Homeland Security, March 31, 2021 On March 31, Secretary Mayorkas outlined his vision and roadmap for the Department’s cybersecurity efforts in a virtual address hosted by RSA Conference, in partnership with Hampton University and the Girl Scouts of the USA. Read...
by kcarten | Mar 18, 2021 | News
CPO Magazine, March 18, 2021 There was a general rise in cyber crime in 2020 due to pandemic conditions, but one notable trend that stood out was a spike in the number of major healthcare data breaches. A new report from cybersecurity firm Tenable reviews the entirety...
by kcarten | Mar 12, 2021 | News
Becker’s Hospital Review, March 12, 2021 Six-hundred clinics, hospital and healthcare organizations were attacked by 92 individual ransomware attacks, affecting 18 million patient records in 2020. The costs of these attacks are almost $21 billion, a Comparitech...
by kcarten | Mar 9, 2021 | News
SC Media, March 9, 2021 If ransomware and data exfiltration attacks that targeted hospitals and vaccine researchers during the pandemic signaled a cyber hygiene crisis in health care, the SolarWinds supply chain attack demonstrated just how deep the problem goes. A...
by kcarten | Mar 9, 2021 | News
Becker’s Hospital Review, March 9, 2021 More than 200,000 patients, providers and employees of Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare began receiving notice that their personal info had been exposed in a recent ransomware attack. Read full Becker’s Hospital Review...
by kcarten | Mar 8, 2021 | News
Becker’s Hospital Review, March 8, 2021 Sandhills Medical Foundation notified patients that an external cloud vendor underwent a ransomware attack, exposing patients’ personal information, according to a news release. The attackers accessed...