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By Bill Siwicki | 12:07 pm | June 20, 2017
Hospital executives must embed security into organizational culture to be ready for the good, bad and ugly of ransomware attacks. And that’s not easy.
By Jessica Davis | 12:01 pm | June 20, 2017
Officials were unable to determine whether an April breach of the medical center’s emails exposed patient data.
By Jessica Davis | 03:46 pm | June 19, 2017
Microsoft has released new patches for Microsoft XP and Server 2003 systems while DHS pointed to an increase in North Korean cyber activity.
By Jessica Davis | 12:08 pm | June 19, 2017
A safe containing a hard drive with the backup of the university’s Social and Economic Sciences Research Center was stolen in April.
By Jessica Davis | 02:03 pm | June 16, 2017
The healthcare administrative services and IT provider took over a year to notify 220,000 individuals of a breach to its website. HHS is determining if it’s a HIPAA-covered business associate.
By Jessica Davis | 11:44 am | June 16, 2017
Greg Touhill left the position in February after the Trump transition. The President has left the position, which Obama rated in 2016, thus far vacant.
By Bill Siwicki | 11:28 am | June 16, 2017
Spam filters are one thing, but if a hacker takes over an e-mail domain, spoofing and phishing can become precise and dangerous. But there are tools available that can help.
By Gus Venditto | 05:16 pm | June 15, 2017
The ride-sharing service is charged with defaming a woman and obtaining her records without authorization.
By Jessica Davis | 12:36 pm | June 15, 2017
The National Security Agency said that tactics, techniques and targets of the massive ransowmare assault point to North Korea’s spy agency: the Reconnaissance General Bureau
By Jessica Davis | 02:59 pm | June 14, 2017
About 15 percent of healthcare organizations are running on outdated systems or browsers, while 160 million computers, IoT devices and servers still have open ports, studies found.