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54% of healthcare vendors have experienced a data breach of protected health information
More than half of all healthcare vendors have experienced a data breach that exposed protected health information (PHI), and it’s a costly problem that points to broken …
Healthcare industry at greatest risk of data breach
The healthcare industry has significantly more exposed attack surfaces than any other industry surveyed, according to Censys’s research findings of cloud risks and cloud …
ENISA publishes procurement guidelines for cybersecurity in hospitals
The EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) published a cybersecurity procurement guide for hospitals. The hospital is a vast ecosystem comprised of an entire network of devices, …
Number of records exposed in healthcare breaches doubled from 2018 to 2019
In 2019, healthcare data breaches collectively affected over 27 million individuals, according to Bitglass. Categories of breaches Hacking or IT incidents: Breaches related to …
The challenges of cyber research and vulnerability disclosure for connected healthcare devices
As Head of Research at CyberMDX, Elad Luz gathers and analyzes information on a variety of connected healthcare devices in order to improve the techniques used to protect them …
Patients believe stronger privacy protections are more important than easier health data access
Patients and consumers deserve better access to personalized, actionable health care information to empower them to make better, more informed decisions – but it should not …
MDhex vulnerabilities open GE Healthcare patient monitoring devices to attackers
Researchers have discovered six critical and high-risk vulnerabilities – collectively dubbed MDhex – affecting a number of patient monitoring devices manufactured …
1.19 billion confidential medical images available on the internet
1.19 billion confidential medical images are now freely available on the internet, according to Greenbone’s research into the security of Picture Archiving and …
Healthcare spikes data breach fever, endpoint threat detections grow 60%
The healthcare industry has been overwhelmingly targeted by Trojan malware during the last year, which increased by 82 percent in Q3 2019 over the previous quarter, according …
Confidential data of 24.3 million patients discovered online
Greenbone Networks has released details of new research in to the security of the servers used by health providers across the world to store images of X-rays as well as CT, …
How to reduce the attack surface associated with medical devices
As the number of connected medical devices continues to rise, so does healthcare organizations’ attack surface. “Most medical devices available in the healthcare system today …
Healthcare’s blind spot: Unmanaged IoT and medical devices
From imaging to monitoring systems, infusion pumps to therapeutic lasers and life support machines, medical devices are used to improve and streamline patient care. Many of …
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