The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued guidance on how the Health Insurance Portability and…
Can an employer be held liable for an employee’s HIPAA violation even if the employee engaged in an unauthorized act that was motivated by the…
Georgia-based Aveanna Healthcare is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by more than 100 patients impacted by a monthlong data breach from 2019.
Hack-for-hire firms, many of them based in India, are creating accounts spoofing the World Health Organisation (WHO) and targeting business leaders in financial services, consulting,…
Microsoft’s security team revealed a new ransomware that is deployed in human-operated attacks.
As telemedicine becomes a more common way for healthcare providers to interact with patients ― especially during the COVID-19 pandemic ― HIPAA must be at…
In response to the recent increase in teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber criminals are targeting teleworking employees with fraudulent termination phishing emails and VTC…
ProLock, a new ransomware variant, has entered the game in recent months and has infiltrated so many system that the FBI and security firms are…
Most cybersecurity breaches are the result of phishing and business email attacks.
Law enforcement in Romania today arrested a group of individuals that were planning ransomware attacks against healthcare institutions in the country.