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HHS to Investigate Change’s Security in Wake of Crippling Cyberattack
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is opening an investigation into UnitedHealth and its Change Healthcare subsidiary following a ransomware attack that for three weeks has essentially shut down ...
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CISA and HHS Cybersecurity Healthcare Toolkit for HPH Sectors
Rohan Timalsina | | cisa, Cyber Threats, Cybersecurity, cybersecurity defense strategies, Cybersecurity Healthcare Toolkit, enterprise security, healthcare organizations, HHS, Linux & Open Source News
CISA and HHS joined forces to discuss the cybersecurity challenges faced by the U.S. healthcare and public health (HPH) sector. This discussion aims to address these challenges and explore how government and ...
U.S. Health Care Under Attack
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), have issued a cybersecurity advisory to the U.S ...
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Safeguarding Our Health Information in a Global Pandemic
Mehul Patel | | Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Health IT, HHS, NIST, Office for Civil Rights, Phishing, Secure Web Gateway, Web Isolation
HHS Can Use Cloud Web Isolation to Stop Cybersecurity Threats without Impacting Productivity. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
Texas HHS Commission Penalized $1.6M for HIPAA Violations
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (TX HHS) must pay a civil penalty of $1.6 million for having violated HIPAA. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of ...
Study: Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, Leo Scanlon, Owen Graduate School of Management, PBS, The Coming Storm, The New England Journal of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, WannaCry
Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because ...