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Business Continuity, IT Challenges, Healthcare Information Systems, FBI, Cyberattack, Cybersecurity

FBI Issues ‘High-Impact’ Cyber Attack Warning—What You Need To Know

Forbes Oct 3, 2019, 06:00am Davey Winder Senior Contributor Cybersecurity Be it the prohibition-era gangsters of the 1920s or the global war on terrorism, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been the primary U.S. investigative agency of the federal government with a responsibility to ...

Oct 3, 2019
2 min read
Business Continuity, IT Challenges, Fayette Medical Center, DCH Health System, Healthcare Information Systems, Cyberattack, Cybersecurity

Disrupted – Ransomware forces 3 hospitals to turn away all but the most critical patients

Ars Technica DAN GOODIN – 10/1/2019, 2:25 PM “A criminal is limiting our ability to use our computer systems,” hospital officials warn.

Oct 3, 2019
2 min read
Business Continuity, IT Challenges, Healthcare Information Systems, Disaster Recovery, EHR Downtime, Cybersecurity

Campbell County Health Ransomware Attack Disrupting Patient Care

Health IT Security By Jessica Davis | 9/23/2019

Sep 24, 2019
3 min read
Business Continuity, IT Challenges, Healthcare Information Systems, Cybersecurity

Most Cyber Attacks Focus on Just Three TCP Ports

BleepingComputer By Ionut Ilascu – 9/17/2019 Small to mid-sized businesses can keep safe from most cyber attacks by protecting the ports that threat actors target the most. Three of them stand out in a crowd of more than 130,000 targeted in cyber incidents.

Sep 17, 2019
3 min read
Business Continuity, Downtime, IT Challenges, Citrix, Healthcare Information Systems, Cybersecurity

Patients warned of delays after computer systems go down at Manitoba hospitals

CBC News · Posted: Sep 05, 2019 4:17 PM CT Computer systems are back up and running at health centres across Manitoba, after the main storage area network went down for several hours on Thursday, causing “delays and challenges” for patients and staff.

Sep 6, 2019
1 min read
Business Continuity, Cyber Hygiene, IT Challenges, Healthcare Information Systems, Cybersecurity

Kentucky Provider Pays $70,000 Ransom to Unlock Patient Data

Park DuValle Community Health Center paid hackers $70,000, after a ransomware attack locked down the medical records of about 20,000 patients for almost two months. Health IT Security By Jessica Davis | July 29, 2019 Louisville, Kentucky-based Park DuValle Community Health Center recently paid ...

Jul 30, 2019
2 min read
Business Continuity, IT Challenges, Healthcare Information Systems, Cybersecurity

Security concerns, budget restrictions hamper move to cloud

HealthcareIT News By Nathan Eddy | July 10, 2019

Jul 11, 2019
2 min read
Business Continuity, IT Challenges, Budgets, Healthcare Information Systems, Cyberattacks, Cybersecurity

Cyberattacks on Healthcare Institutions Continue to Increase, Survey Finds

Healthcare Innovation RAJIV LEVENTHAL | JUNE 17, 2019 More than eight in ten (83 percent) healthcare organizations have acknowledged they have seen an increase in cyberattacks over the past year, with about two-thirds noting that these attacks have become more sophisticated, according to a new ...

Jun 17, 2019
2 min read
Business Continuity, IT Challenges, Healthcare Information Systems, Cyberattacks, Data Breach Investigations Report, Cybersecurity

Healthcare Sector Continues to Battle Ransomware, Insider Attacks

Healthcare Insider DAVID RATHS | MAY 8, 2019

May 8, 2019
1 min read
Business Continuity, IT Challenges, 60 minutes, Healthcare Information Systems, Cybersecurity

How cybercriminals hold data hostage… and why the best solution is often paying a ransom

60 Minutes CORRESPONDENT Scott Pelley | 2019 May 05 Read article

May 5, 2019
9 min read
Business Continuity, IT Challenges, Breaches, Healthcare Information Systems, Cybersecurity

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights Breach Portal: Notice to the Secretary of HHS Breach of Unsecured Protected Health Information

As required by section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act, the Secretary must post a list of breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals. The following breaches have been reported to the Secretary:

May 1, 2019
0 min read
Business Continuity, Crisis Management, IT Challenges, Healthcare Information Systems, Cyberattack, Cybersecurity

The Rise of Healthcare Cyberattacks and Misunderstood Threats to Business Continuity Preparedness

Everyone knows that cyberattacks and breaches are a significant and increasing threat to healthcare. You may also know that healthcare is far and away the #1 target for hackers and accounts for 88% of all ransomware attacks, and growing rapidly.

Apr 22, 2019
4 min read