2022 Security and Compliance Tips, Threats, and Trends
As 2022 unfolds, the security and compliance threats to organizations and healthcare practices look a lot like a repeat of 2021: more ransomware threats, recycling old scams [...]
Should You Have a HIPAA Compliant Password Manager?
As technology makes our lives easier, it brings the challenge of remembering all the various usernames and passwords required to access our data. Many of us take [...]
2021 HIPAA “Wall of Shame” Healthcare Data Breaches Up 7.5%
With at least six weeks before final numbers are in, the Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website is reporting 713 major healthcare [...]
New Website Aims to Align HHS Cybersecurity Guidance
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new website designed to align HHS cybersecurity guidance across the healthcare spectrum and facilitate the exchange of best practices [...]
HIPAA Compliance Helps Prevent Small Practice Cybercrime
Most security experts agree that it is no longer a question of if cybercriminals will target your practice, but when. Hacking, phishing attacks, and ransomware can effectively [...]
No HIPAA Incident Response Plan is Planned Failure
Nearly Half of Healthcare Orgs Have No HIPAA Incident Response Plan for Cyberattacks Despite the growing threat of cyberattacks such as phishing, hacking, [...]
Log4j Hacks Threaten Medical Device Security
A cybersecurity flaw responsible for widespread disruptions of applications and web services has the potential to adversely affect medical device security around the world. How the Log4j Hacks Threaten [...]
Government Agencies Warn of the Most Dangerous Exploits Ever Discovered, the RCE Vulnerability
On December 14, 2021, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a warning regarding a severe vulnerability in Java logging libraries that allows unauthenticated remote code [...]
Top 4 Healthcare Cybersecurity Challenges
There are many cybersecurity challenges that face healthcare organizations, particularly as they’ve become more of a target for hackers. This is for several reasons such as the [...]
Medical Device Security Risks Exposed in MRI Machines
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released a statement in which they warned of vulnerabilities in Philips MRI 1.5T: Version 5.x.x. and MRI 3T: Version [...]
