U.S. healthcare organizations could be in the crosshairs of a new cyberthreat collective dubbed Royal. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published an analyst note this week detailing the threat and the hacker group’s tactics. Thewarningfrom HHS’s Health Sector Cybersecurity Co...
Cybersecurity threats against healthcare facilities continue to rise. In this annual survey, Ponemon dives deep into the cybersecurity risks faced by the industry and their impact on patient care. Now in its third year, this year’s survey sheds new light where progress is being made—and wher...
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Healthcare Cybersecurity Threats Healthcare Cybersecurity Threats encompass a broad spectrum of intentional malicious acts and inadvertent accidents from various internal and external sources. Here are the primary cybersecurity threats facing the healthcare sector: Social Engineering Social engineeringattacks u...
Following an uptick in media interest and public scrutiny, cybersecurity recently has become a hot topic in the healthcare industry. Medical device cybersecurity threats have the potential to jeopardize the integrity of hospital information technology (IT) networks and the operation of medical ...
Last week, cybersecurity expertswarnedthat medical care would suffer from new additional risks they are not prepared to handle. The new threats are coming from the “Internet of Bodies” – IoT devices incorporated into human bodies for medical purposes. ...
Cybersecurity remains top of mind for healthcare, as it is the most targeted industry, incurring the highest average cost per breach for 14 consecutive years; the current average cost of a breach is $9.77 million.[2] Keeping up with cybersecurity threats has always been a challenge, but tod...
New Healthcare Cybersecurity Threats ReportedAs hackers become more sophisticated, it is important to keep up to date with new threats. There are two new threats that are concerning in that they are difficult to recognize and detect. One of these threats is a very convincing phishing scam, ...
A new study by cybersecurity firm Critical Insight noted that while the sheer number of breaches against health care facilities is actually down, there is a spike in the number of people who have been affected by attacks as well as an increase in supply chain and third-party targets. Also,...
Annual audits of an organisation’s cyber security and a “zero trust” approach (assume any user or device may be a risk until proven otherwise) can mitigate threats to old and new healthcare IT systems, experts say. So can widely used antivirus software, which protects computers and laptop...