NHS Test and Trace is working with British cybersecurity company Risk Ledger to proactively manage cybersecurity risks in their supply chain. The UK government-funded service, which was established to...

A report Tuesday from South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday alleged that the regime of Kim Jong Un had tried to tap into the servers of a local drugmaker to obtain data on the Pfizer vaccine. WHY...

A hacker group known for ransomware attacks posted sensitive employee files online following a cyberattack at a Gallup, New Mexico, health system.   According to NBC News, the group stole sensitive employee...

Cardiologists from Henry Ford Health System have found that the magnets in an iPhone 12 can potentially interfere with devices such as pacemakers and implantable defibrillators.   Because the devices...

Experts have repeatedly predicted that telehealth would present a major challenge for healthcare cybersecurity in the coming year.   But it’s not enough to know telehealth is likely to be an issue...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights announced Friday that Excellus Health Plan, also known as Excellus BlueCrossBlueShield, has agreed to pay $5.1 million to settle...

DirectTrust has made the draft of its new Trusted Instant Messaging+ standard available for testing. It bills TIM+ as the industry-first standard to enable real-time secure healthcare IMs by incorporating...

Providence, Rhode Island-based Lifespan Health System will pay $1,040,000 and put a corrective action plan in place to settle a potential HIPAA violation with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. ON THE RECORD The...

Norway’s contact tracing app Smittestopp has been temporarily banned in response to privacy concerns from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (NDPA). The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)...

As medical professionals continue in their quest to learn more about the strange and unpredictable novel coronavirus, research is moving at a rapid pace – with robust and widespread data sharing a key...