If providers hope to stave off the fallout of ransomware attacks, it’s clear the reactionary phase must end; providers must bolster emergency planning, including critical asset inventory.
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Category Archives: Healthcare Information Systems
H-ISAC’s CSO Looks at the Contrasting Cybersecurity Landscapes in Financial Services and Healthcare
Errol Weiss, who became the chief security officer at H-ISAC earlier this year, shares his perspectives on the differences between the financial services and cybersecurity landscapes
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FBI Issues ‘High-Impact’ Cyber Attack Warning—What You Need To Know
One “high impact” and ongoing cyber threat has become such a critical concern that on October 2, the FBI issued a warning to U.S businesses and organizations.
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Disrupted – Ransomware forces 3 hospitals to turn away all but the most critical patients
“A criminal is limiting our ability to use our computer systems,” hospital officials warn.
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Campbell County Health Ransomware Attack Disrupting Patient Care
Since Friday morning, Campbell County Health in Gillette, Wyoming has been working to restore its computer systems and full patient care after falling victim to a ransomware attack.
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Most Cyber Attacks Focus on Just Three TCP Ports
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.
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Patients warned of delays after computer systems go down at Manitoba hospitals
Citrix platform now back online after after hours of problems accessing charts, data
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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.
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Security concerns, budget restrictions hamper move to cloud
Even as the number of organizations ready to adopt a cloud-based approach is rising, nearly a fifth of healthcare orgs surveyed said they’d consider moving their data from the cloud back on premises.
Continue readingCyberattacks on Healthcare Institutions Continue to Increase, Survey Finds
A silver lining is that industry awareness has never been higher, researchers pointed out
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