News 4/17/24 – HIStalk
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Shares of UnitedHealth rise on the news that the company beat Q1 revenue expectations in spite of costs incurred by the Change Healthcare cyberattack. The company expects to lose up to $1.6 billion…
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Cybersecurity Investment in Fundamental Tools and Training Is Key to Securing Your Healthcare Organization | Healthcare IT Today
According to Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc., phishing emails are still the most prevalent and dangerous sources for security breaches. In this video, Witt and Joshua Roth, Chief Information Security…
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Cybersecurity Investment in Fundamental Tools & Training Is Key to Securing Your Organization
According to Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc., phishing emails are still the most prevalent and dangerous sources for security breaches. In this video, Witt and Joshua Roth, Chief Information Security…
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Ransomware roundup: Possible Change Healthcare double extortion, LockBit reorganizes and more
It became clear across the healthcare cybersecurity landscape this week that the specter of a potential double-extortion attack by RansomHub looming over Change Healthcare, following the February cyberattack by ALPHV.Further, a whirlwind of news…
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NextGen Investing in Mobile App, Cybersecurity, and Mirth…yes Mirth!
There were three burning questions we wanted to ask NextGen’s CEO David Sides. (1) How are they improving their mobile app? (2) What’s happening with Mirth? (3) How are they approaching cybersecurity? Good news…
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Securing Patient Data: A Practical Guide to Compliance in Open-Source Healthcare CMS | Healthcare IT Today
The following is a guest article by Jon Stewart, Co-Founder and President at ZenSource
Historically, the terms “patient data,” “open-source,” and “healthcare CMS” might have seemed incongruous. Open-source has often been perceived as the Wild…
Cybersecurity roundup: MedSec offers hospitals risk support; global study links cyber performance to financial success
Between the medical device vulnerabilities and cybersecurity challenges discussed in news this week, it’s clear hospitals and health systems across healthcare have their work cut out to shore up their defenses and stay in…
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News 4/10/24 – HIStalk
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A second ransomware group – likely a disgruntled affiliate of the Blackcat/ALPHV group – threatens UnitedHealth Group with the sale of data that was stolen during the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare…
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HC3 warns of social engineering attacks targeting IT help desks
The U.S. Health and Human Services, in coordination with its Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center, published a sector alert to advise on mitigations to defend against spearphishing voice scams that ultimately seek to steal…
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What’s hindering Australia’s digital health adoption?
A single pain point which hinders Australian healthcare’s progress in digital transformation is cybersecurity. In recent years, Australia has made serious efforts to develop the digital capabilities of its health system, including making multi-year investments…
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