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FBI Agent to CHIME Attendees: The Cybersecurity Environment Is Becoming More Dangerous
The level of cybersecurity threat is growing exponentially in healthcare right now, but there are some very clear strategies that the leaders of patient care organizations can and should do in order to fight back. That was the core of the message that Timothy J. Wallach, a supervisory special agent in the Cyber Task Force in the Seattle Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) told attendees Monday morning at the CHIME/AEHIS LEAD Forum Event, being held at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront in Seattle...
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Hackers Are Coming for Your Healthcare Records -- Here’s Why
Data stolen from a bank quickly becomes useless once the breach is discovered and passcodes are changed. But data from the healthcare industry, which includes both personal identities and medical histories, can live a lifetime. Cyberattacks will cost hospitals more than $305 billion over the next five years and one in 13 patients will have their data compromised by a hack, according to industry consultancy Accenture. And a study by the Brookings Institution predicts that one in four data breaches this year will hit the healthcare industry...
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Healthcare is Now Top Industry for Cyberattacks, New Research Shows
Five of the eight largest healthcare security breaches that occurred since the beginning of 2010 – those with more than 1 million records reportedly compromised – took place during the first six months of 2015, according to IBM X-Force's "2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index." And in 2015 overall, more than 100 million healthcare records reportedly were compromised, the report said...
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Technology Breakdowns A Core Strategic Concern For Hospitals
Not just a hurricane or tornado can shut down the IT infrastructure; man-made attacks threaten as well
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Who Needs Heartbleed When Many Dot-Govs Don't Even Encrypt Communications
More than a quarter of federal websites are not properly configured with software to prevent intruders from intercepting data entered by citizens, according to a new study...
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