About ten days ago Ireland’s healthcare system was forced to shut down its computers due to a ransomware attack. Ireland’s health minister said the attack was having a severe impact on the health and social services. In today’s healthcare world, having doctors and hospitals run without computers means no patient charts and a very labor […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Talk about a political football, oh my. Florida has passed a law outlawing them. Not sure that Florida is a bastion of privacy – just wants to stick it to certain folks. But, if some other state or other company requires it, the law is meaningless. Lets say, just making something up, that New York […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well if that isn’t depressing …. Experts warn that medical-device security is a chronic problem, now exacerbated by COVID-era healthcare challenges. Hospitals have been forced to prioritize budgets and staffing to focus on lifesaving care – meaning that IT security often takes a back seat. Adding insult to injury, hackers are aware of this, and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As is often the case when the feds do something, there is probably at least one thing that is good in this notice of proposed rulemaking and probably others that are less good. The HIPAA privacy rule is designed to protect the privacy of patient data, but other than stopping providers from selling your health […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have gotten more notices on this particular alert than usual, so I suspect that means that there is more fire than anyone is admitting. The FBI, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services issued a joint alert that hospitals and other public health organizations are being targeted by malware, especially ransomware. They are calling […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Finland-based psychotherapy group Psychotherapy Center Vastaamo may need some therapy itself. They claim that in late 2018-early 2019 hackers broke into their network. Just this month it has come out that the company, which has 20+ offices and 300 or so shrinks may have lost the data of 40,000 patients, some of whom are […]
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