Category: Compliance
Obama Orders Review of Election Hacking
Posted December 9, 2016 in Data Breach, Digital Forensics, Compliance
One of the big stories of the recent presidential election was the release of documents from cyberattacks that were...
How to Avoid Millions in HIPAA Fines
Posted December 2, 2016 in HIPAA, Compliance, NIST
If there was ever any doubt whether the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) was...
UMass HIPAA Fine
Posted November 29, 2016 in HIPAA, Compliance, Malware
As part of their crackdown, federal regulators have issued their 13th major HIPAA enforcement this year. The...
Secret Service Warns of New ATM Skimmer: Periscope
Posted September 14, 2016 in Malware, Data Breach, Compliance
The Secret Service has issued a new warning to the banking industry about a new type of skimming device that has...
Tiny Bug, Huge HIPAA Impact
Posted August 15, 2016 in HIPAA, Compliance, Data Breach
Picture this: You want to check something from your doctor, so you log into your medical portal to see your health...
Electronic Health Record Outages
Posted July 26, 2016 in HIPAA, Ransomware, NIST, Data Breach
According to the Health and Human Services Office for the Inspector General (OIG), in 2014 almost 60% of hospitals...
OHSU Agrees to Pay $2.7 Million in HIPAA Fines
Posted July 20, 2016 in HIPAA, Compliance, Data Breach
Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) was accused of violating two HIPAA data breaches involving protected...
HIPAA Audits and Ransomware
Posted July 13, 2016 in HIPAA, Ransomware, Malware, Compliance, Data Breach
Unfortunately for medical practices the transition and reliance on digital patient records have brought with it a new...