Privacy & Security
Continuous funding and partnerships – along with the potential for blockchain-based efforts to reduce the counterfeiting of drugs – are also changing the landscape a new report finds.
After hackers logged into the hospital’s remote access portal using a third-party vendor’s username and password, officials paid up as it would have taken more time and money to restore files from backups.
Threat detection response is more reactive than proactive but MITRE engineer explains how sharing threats within a trusted environment can bolster security programs.
The government is investing £4.2bn to support the adoption of digital technology across the NHS over the five years up to 2020, but how much of that is going into strengthening cyber defence capabilities?
A hacker gained access to an Oklahoma State Health Sciences network and accessed folders containing Medicaid billing data.
The first reported hospital ransomware attack in 2018 was sophisticated – and not caused by an employee opening a malicious email.
Doctors on the front lines of the opioid crisis find text messaging helpful in managing treatment with patients.
The state would have one of the toughest breach notification laws in the country if the legislation is passed.
A laptop of a Coplin Health Systems employee was stolen from a car and serves as a reminder to encrypt all data.
The medical records vendor claimed regulatory changes to HIPAA in 2013 and 2016 threaten to “upend the medical records industry.”