Sep 1, 2016 | HSN, Phishing, Security Training
Dropbox, the popular file sharing service, has experienced a data breach that could affect up to 60 million users. Dropbox is urging their users to change their passwords immediately. In addition, we are seeing an increase in Dropbox related phishing emails. In this...
Aug 16, 2016 | Breach, HIPAA Insurance, HSN
Data breaches are happening on a frequent basis. You can’t read the news or watch TV without hearing about another data breach. While a company may give out some details of a data breach, the financial details of what the data breach will cost a company...
Aug 11, 2016 | Breach, Business Associate, Business Associates, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN
Almost all software programs have bugs in their code. The bugs may be security holes, problems displaying pages on mobile devices or inaccurately displaying results in reports to name a few. So it should be no shock that electronic health record (EHR) systems...
Jul 13, 2016 | HIPAA Violations, HSN, ransomware
There has been a lot of articles written lately about the threat of ransomware to healthcare organizations. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a $17,000 ransom to regain access to their systems after they were infected with ransomware. Several other...
Jul 12, 2016 | Audit, HIPAA Audits, HIPAA Fine, HSN
Back in March, we reported that OCR had announced its Phase 2 Audit Program. When we last heard from OCR about Phase 2 HIPAA Audits, we saw that emails were being sent to Covered Entities and Business Associates. The purpose of the emails was to verify and...
Jul 11, 2016 | Audit, HIPAA Audits, HSN, ransomware, Security Training
HIPAA Secure Now! President and CEO writes an article for Physicians Practice called: Don’t Let HIPAA Audits, Ransomware Sink Your Practice At the same time medical practices are faced with the increased likelihood of a HIPAA audit, hackers hover around waiting...
