healthcare

How ransomware impacts the healthcare industry
Healthcare continues to be one of the most attractive targets for cyberattackers, and the number of breaches affecting the industry is increasing yearly. In this Help Net …

Preparing health systems for cyber risks and insurance coverage
Our healthcare systems are at risk of infiltration by threat actors, potentially disrupting services, compromising sensitive data, and even jeopardizing patient outcomes. …

Exploring the persistent threat of cyberattacks on healthcare
In this Help Net Security interview, Brett Harris, Cybersecurity Officer for the Americas at Siemens Healthineers, discusses the long-term impacts of cyberattacks on …

Building a culture of security awareness in healthcare begins with leadership
With the rise of modern trends such as cloud computing and remote work, healthcare institutions strive to balance accessibility, convenience, and robust security. In this Help …

The silent killers in digital healthcare
As digital transformation revolutionizes the healthcare industry, its use of API (application programming interfaces) technology is skyrocketing. APIs, which help users and …

How healthcare CISOs can automate cloud security controls
Cloud environments provide many benefits, primarily involving their ease of scalability and resilience. Those qualities exist because of automation and the easy and …

Healthcare data breaches still higher than pre-pandemic levels
The number of data breaches affecting healthcare providers declined in the second half of 2022, consistent with a downward trend over the past two years, according to Critical …

North Korea targets US, South Korean hospitals with ransomware to fund further cyber operations
US and South Korean agencies have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory describing the tactics, techniques and procedures used by North Korean hackers to deploy …

Critical OpenEMR vulnerabilities may allow attackers to access patients’ health records
Critical vulnerabilities discovered in OpenEMR can be chained to gain code execution on a server running a vulnerable version of the popular open-source electronic health …

Connected medical devices are the Achilles’ heel of healthcare orgs
The rising adoption of connected medical devices is accelerating cyberattacks, according to Capterra’s Medical IoT Survey of healthcare IT professionals. The survey also …

All of Medibank’s stolen data leaked, Australia increases maximum penalties for data breaches
Australian health insurance provider Medibank has confirmed that another batch of the customer data stolen in the recent breach has been leaked. “We are conducting …

Rallying cybersecurity and healthcare IT to support patient safety
The expansion of cyber-physical systems in healthcare, particularly the IP “heartbeats” dispersed across hospital networks, has stretched cybersecurity beyond its IT legacy of …
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