Cybercriminals across the world continue to use healthcare organizations as their target practice. It seems like there is a new healthcare cybersecurity disaster dominating headlines each month — with this month’s being an attack…
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Arun Shrestha, CEO and Co-Founder of BeyondID
Between January 1 and April 1, 2024, at least 16.6 million individuals were impacted by data breaches across the healthcare industry. Of those, 16.3 million – or 98…
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released new guidance for high-risk nonprofit and other resource-constrained community organizations to improve their understanding and efforts to mitigate cyberthreats.But the upcoming 2024 election could have a huge impact on…
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It’s been a bad couple months for cybersecurity in healthcare. Or maybe it will end up being a good thing. I remember after the devestation of Hurricane Katrina, we all woke up to the…
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Ascension confirmed Saturday that a May 8 cybersecurity incident was a ransomware attack. But the 19-state health system said it’s making progress in updating systems and has provided separate updates for facilities in each…
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US non-profit health system Ascension has confirmed that its electronic health records (EHR) system is down following a ransomware incident on 8 May 2024.In a cybersecurity update, published on 13 May 2024, Ascension said…
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The Vivid T9 ultrasound system
What You Should Know:
– Security researchers at Nozomi Networks Labs have identified a total of 11 vulnerabilities affecting GE HealthCare’s Vivid family of ultrasound machines, the accompanying Common Service Desktop…
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The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center issued a threat alert Friday about the Russia-backed ransomware group Black Basta, warning of its accelerated attempted attacks against the healthcare sector.Prompted by H-ISAC, the American Hospital Association also…
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Cybercriminals don’t seem like they will stop using healthcare institutions as target practice anytime soon, as another major organization fell victim to a cyberattack this week.
Ascension, a St. Louis-based health system with 140 hospitals…
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What You Should Know:
– Ascension, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit and Catholic health systems, announced today they are investigating a potential cybersecurity event detected on Wednesday, May 8th.
– According to a statement released…
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