Cybersecurity
Patients Concerned About Health Information Privacy

Patients Concerned About Health Information Privacy

An American Medical Association (AMA) patient privacy survey has confirmed that patients are worried that their healthcare data is no longer being kept private and confidential. More must be done to protect medical information and strengthen trust. Virtually every...

1.35 Million-record Data Breach Reported by Broward Health

1.35 Million-record Data Breach Reported by Broward Health

2021 was another record-breaking year for healthcare data breaches. As of December 31, 2021, 686 healthcare data breaches had been reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights that affected 44,993,618 individuals.  That number is sure to grow over the coming days as...

2021 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Do Your Part. BeCyberSmart

2021 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Do Your Part. BeCyberSmart

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an initiative launched by the National Cyber Security Alliance and the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2004 which is now in its 18th year. Throughout October, cybersecurity advice will be issued, and...

NCSC Recommends Three Random Words for Passwords

NCSC Recommends Three Random Words for Passwords

In most organizations, the recommended practices for password creation involve setting a unique password for all accounts, making sure the password is as random as possible - combining upper- and lower-case letters, numbers and special characters - is at least 8...

Average Cost of a Healthcare Data Breach Increases to $9.23 Million

Average Cost of a Healthcare Data Breach Increases to $9.23 Million

The average cost of a data breach has increased 10% year-over-year, according to the IBM Security 2021 Cost of a Data Breach Report. Data breach costs have reached record levels and are higher than at any other point in the past 17 years that IBM Security has been...

What does the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) Mean?

What does the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) Mean?

With the passing, in November 2020, of the California Privacy Rights Act, came a range of new obligations for businesses operating in the State. They must now move swift to make sure that every member of staff is conscious of their obligations in order to avoid large...

45% in Healthcare Sector Cyberattacks During 2020

45% in Healthcare Sector Cyberattacks During 2020

In the third quarter of 2020, an alert was released for the healthcare and public health sector in the aftermath of a spike in ransomware activity being identified. The joint CISA, FBI, and HHS cybersecurity advisory group informed the healthcare sector that it was...

Data Breach Leads to Massive Carrefour Fine

Data Breach Leads to Massive Carrefour Fine

In France the data protection regulator, Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), has penalised French retail giant Carrefour more than €3m ($3.7m) in relation to a number of breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation....

What do CPRA and GDPR have in Common?

What do CPRA and GDPR have in Common?

At the beginning this month the electorate of California voted to pass the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), legislation created to further enhance the reach of the California Consumer Privacy Act that become enforceable earlier in 2020. The passing of the CPRA...

California Privacy Rights Act Approved by Voters

California Privacy Rights Act Approved by Voters

In California the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ballot initiative has been passed after winning the approval of 56% of votes. This means that Californiance Consumers Privacy Act will be amended to incorporate additional rights for the consumer. Along with this...

CISA: ‘Patch Wormable Bad Neighbor Windows TCP/IP Flaw Immediately’

CISA: ‘Patch Wormable Bad Neighbor Windows TCP/IP Flaw Immediately’

Microsoft have made a new patch available to address a critical remove code execution flaw in the Microsoft Windows Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/IP stack. The flaw is related to how the TCP/IP stack manages Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6)...

Third Set of Proposed Amendments to CCPA Revealed by California DOJ

Third Set of Proposed Amendments to CCPA Revealed by California DOJ

A third set of proposed modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been released by the California Department of Justice. The California attorney general became authorized to enforce the law on July 1, 2020, and the California Office of...

Increase in LokiBot Malware Activity Leads to CISA Issues Alert

Increase in LokiBot Malware Activity Leads to CISA Issues Alert

An alert has been released by the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)  after a noticeable increase in LokiBot malware activity was recorded in the past eight weeks. LokiBot – also referred to as Lokibot, Loki PWS,...

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