Rachel Z. Arndt reports: The Department of Homeland Security has ordered that all federal agencies remove Kaspersky Lab software from their computer systems in the next 90 days, a decision that could ripple down into the healthcare industry, cybersecurity experts say. …. Kaspersky has more than 5,000 healthcare customers around the world, a small but…
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FL: Billing employee in healthcare office sentenced for ID theft role
There’s an update to an insider breach case previously reported on this site. Sharmekia Young, the former Rotech Healthcare employee convicted of stealing almost 1,000 patients’ information, has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Largest healthcare provider in western New York successfully phished in two consecutive months
Having to notify almost 2,800 patients because an employee fell for a phishing attack is not something most healthcare providers would exactly relish. Having to notify 2,800 patients in July and then another 744 patients in August because there were phishing incidents in two consecutive months, well,….. ouch. But that’s the situation Kaleida Health in…
Defray Ransomware Seen Targeting Education, Healthcare Industry
Sure… go after the verticals that have the poorest protection. Makes perfect sense. Chris Brook reports: Researchers observed a new, albeit small and selective ransomware campaign earlier this month targeting both education and healthcare verticals. The ransomware, dubbed Defray, comes hidden in rigged Microsoft Word document attachments, sent via email. Researchers with Proofpoint, who spotted…
Virginia Woman Admits Stealing WVU Medicine University Healthcare Patient Information
The Associated Press has an update on an insider breach previously noted earlier this year: Forty-one-year-old Angela Roberts of Stephenson, Virginia, entered the plea Monday in federal court in Martinsburg. Roberts admitted using someone else’s personal information to commit bank fraud in June 2016 in Berkeley County, West Virginia. She faces up to five years…
Irony: When blackhats are our only source of disclosure for some healthcare hacks (Update1)
“We’ll not be caught, ever.” — TheDarkOverlord, June 21, 2017 At this rate, the criminals known as TheDarkOverlord may be right. But if they escape accountability for their criminal acts, what about those who were responsible for securing our protected health information? Have they also escaped accountability and will they continue to escape accountability? Since…