Just How Not "HIPAA Mandatory" Is Encryption?
Posted January 8, 2020 in HIPAA, Compliance, Data Breach
In case you were ever wondering if your practice needs to encrypt its ePHI? Let the $3 million HIPAA penalty paid...
FBI Warns Business Owners: Beware of Increasing Maze Attacks
Posted January 8, 2020 in Ransomware, Cryptocurrency, Data Breach, Malware
Directly on the heels of LockerGoga and MegaCortex, a different strand of ransomware, Maze, which was first...
Twitter Vulnerability Exposed in a Big Way
Posted December 26, 2019 in Data Breach, Malware, Compliance
Ibrahim Balic, a security researcher, recently exposed a flaw in Twitter's app that allowed to match unique Twitter...
Ransomware Attack Shuts Down New Orleans
Posted December 14, 2019 in Ransomware, Data Breach, HIPAA, Malware
It seems like something that only happens in movies and TV shows: It's Friday the 13th. You, your colleagues, your...
Sentara Doubled Down When They Should Have Folded
Posted December 10, 2019 in HIPAA, Data Breach, Compliance
"Eight is Enough" A great, wholesome, family show from the late 70's and early 80's. Also: what Sentara Hospital,...
Russian Hackers Hold Nursing Home Patients' Data Ransom for $14M
Posted December 9, 2019 in HIPAA, Compliance, Ransomware, Data Breach, Malware
There is a reason hackers have started targeting hospitals and medical practices. Not only is their cyber security...
Cyborg Ransomware Delivers Via Fake ‘Windows Update’ Email
Posted December 9, 2019 in Ransomware, Malware, Data Breach
Researchers at Trustwave recently discovered a malicious spam campaign. The email comes as an executable file via...
Looting Adds Insult to Injury for Durham Clinic
Posted November 19, 2019 in Data Breach, HIPAA, Digital Forensics
Looters broke into a Durham health clinic sometime after the downtown gas explosion on April 10th that affected over...