Ransomware Costs Rise and Cause Downtime
The cost of ransomware attacks across all sectors exponentially increased during the second quarter of 2019, with ransom payments rising 184 percent to $36,295 from $12,762 during the second quarter, according to a Coveware analysis. Coveware’s Q2 Ransomware Marketplace report analyzed anonymized ransomware data handled by the security firm’s incident response team and other incident response firms that rely on Coveware’s incident response platform. In total, healthcare made
Upstate NY Health Hacking Incident Exposes Data of 25,000 Patients
A hacker gained access to an emailed discussion about upstate NY patients who missed a health screening, leading to a massive breach-of-data warning. About 25,000 patients were on a “gap in care” spreadsheet, identified in a variety of ways. Some were named with their birth date, some had Social Security numbers, and some had a Medicare or health insurance number included. All of them were exposed to the hack of an Adirondacks Accountable Care Organization email inbox. Howeve
Why “Zero Trust” is Critical to Compliance
It is a brand-new world when it comes to data privacy and security. New regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have joined PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and more than 25,000 other cybersecurity regulations passed since 2008. Together, these regulations have vastly increased the workload on security teams already stretched thin by the sheer scale and complexity of modern software services. With so much data infrastructur
NY-Based Hospital Group Breach Exposed Patient Information
A phishing scam targeting Health Quest employees may have resulted in the leak of patient information, according to a notice from the health care provider. Health Quest is a Hudson Valley, NY-based entity of integrated hospitals and health care providers. John Nelson, director of public and community affairs with Health Quest, could not provide an exact number of impacted individuals, as the investigation is ongoing. "We want to make sure that everyone is aware of the situati
