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[Podcast] NSA Cybersecurity Services for Defense Contractors
Dark Web Monitoring - Unauthorized Access Podcast
Cyberside Chats: Everyone wants to be Batman. Hacking Back & Cybersecurity Law
Mandatory Cyber Incident Reporting: Pros, Cons, and Next Steps
Fighting the Constantly Evolving Threat of Cybercrimes
Part 2: Cybersecurity and the Role of Management
Part 1: Cybersecurity and the Role of Management
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In February 2024, the healthcare industry was rattled by a significant cyberattack targeting Change Healthcare (“Change”), a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest health insurance companies in the world. The...more
In this article, we look at the 2021 cyberattack on the Health Service Executive (“HSE”), the national healthcare provider for Ireland, and what lessons have been learned from that crisis one year post-incident....more
Report on Medicare Compliance 31 no. 18 (May 16, 2022) - In a version of the future that hopefully never comes, malware is able to remove malignant-looking tumors from CT or MRI scans before they were reviewed by...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - HHS said in early March that it was not aware of any specific threat to U.S. health care organizations stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “However, in the...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 2 (February, 2022) - Tensions between the U.S. and Russia could lead to a heightened risk of Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks on U.S. interests, including health care organizations,...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, real “security fatigue” with pandemic-related issues will combine with cybercriminals’ increasingly sophisticated...more
Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 10 (October, 2021) - Conducting a risk analysis is a basic tenet of security compliance, with the overarching goal of understanding where protected health information (PHI) “lives” in an...more
A myopic focus on protecting EMR (Electronic Medical Records) systems has left healthcare organizations open to shadow information risk. In a world where hackers and ransomware criminals are regularly compromising healthcare...more
Go to just about any news site today and there is probably a new story about a data breach that costs a company millions of dollars. Just in the past few weeks, we’ve seen Colonial Pipeline pay as much as $5 million in...more
Report on Patient Privacy 18, no. 1 (January 2021) - Security threats to health care entities will continue to escalate in 2021, as bad actors with significant capabilities target pandemic-weary organizations still...more
Several federal agencies have teamed up to warn healthcare employers of the increased threat they face as a result of malicious cybercriminals aiming to take advantage of the pandemic to wreak havoc on their operations. The...more
CISA, FBI, & HHS Warn of Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare Sector - On October 28, 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of...more
On October 28, 2020, a coalition of US government entities consisting of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services...more
As hospitals and healthcare providers/systems (collectively, “Healthcare Providers”) across the nation have been reacting to spiking COVID-19 cases, an increased, imminent cybercrime threat targeting Healthcare Providers has...more
Adult Streaming Site Leaves 7TB of Users’ Information Unsecured - Live adult streaming website CAM4 has reportedly not secured 7TB of users’ information, which may be able to be used for blackmail and identity theft...more
Following the escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran in the past week, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) is warning hospitals and health systems that Iran could attack health...more
In a recent Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques Report focusing on the health care industry, cybersecurity company Malwarebytes discovered a significant 82% spike in Trojan malware attacks on health care organizations in Q3...more
Cybersecurity threats continued to plague the healthcare sector in 2018. Healthcare organizations notified twice as many individuals under HIPAA and other notification statutes in 2018 as compared with 2017. ...more
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a publication entitled the "Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP): Managing Threats and Protecting Patients." The HICP was prepared in response to the...more
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released a report titled “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients.” ...more
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Dec. 28, 2018, announced the release of the "Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients" that provides a "Call to Action" to make...more
On December 28, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) closed out the year by releasing long-awaited voluntary cybersecurity guidelines for the health care industry. The four-volume publication,...more
We have read multiple reports on WannaCry and if you are reading this and don’t know what WannaCry is, Google it for the background story. The clear message is this is not the last major attack we will see, and future attacks...more
My newest hero in the fight against ransomware is Little Red Door Cancer Services of East Central Indiana (Little Red Door). I am sending a donation to it to celebrate its courage in the last few weeks. Little Red Door...more
On October 12, 2015, Nossaman and UC Irvine hosted a Cyber Symposium at the City Club in Los Angeles. The event included four panels of Nossaman lawyers, UCI professors, and private professionals who are experts in the areas...more