Ransomware Hits Hundreds of Dental Offices

Sep 5, 2019 | HSN, ransomware

A Toothache Beyond Repair Hackers have used the very software that hundreds of dentists relied on to run their business, to bring it to their knees.  A ransomware attack is responsible for shutting down computers at roughly 400 dental offices all over the U.S. The...

Repeat Offender

Aug 27, 2019 | Cybercrime, HSN

It’s a Fact When you search for cyberattacks by vertical, always in the top categories is healthcare.  It can be filtered from there by the size of the business, whether it is enterprise or small to medium-sized establishments, but the information targeted is patient...

Why We Need to Go Beyond HIPAA

Aug 20, 2019 | HSN

HIPAA – Then & Now The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA, has been around since 1996, with the intent to protect patients by properly handling their protected health information (PHI). With good intentions, HIPAA set...

Halfway Health Check

Aug 6, 2019 | HSN

We’re just passed the midway point of the year and if this were our own health report, we’d be failing miserably when it comes to data breach prevention. According to a recent report from Protenus and Databreaches.net, over 31 million healthcare records were breached...

Scrolling Through the Breaches

Jul 30, 2019 | HSN

Every day in my newsfeed I’m alerted to yet another compromise to patient information.  The headline isn’t always the attention-grabbing ones that we see when major credit companies or big-box retailers are exposed. These are just listed, one after the other,...
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