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 track and help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus in England, will utilise Risk Ledger’s secure ‘social network’ platform, which allows organisations to connect and […]
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 IT MATTERS The charge from South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, reportedly relayed to Seoul lawmakers in a […]
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 files from Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services and posted them to its website, seemingly in an attempt to extort payment. The […]
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 have switches that respond to an external magnet, the doctors found that they can be triggered by the magnetic array in new iPhones, which help align […]
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 real task is working collaboratively to address those dangers. At the second installment of the American Telemedicine Association’s EDGE policy […]
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 potential HIPAA violations. The potential violations regarded a breach lasting nearly a year and a half that affected over 9.3 million people, said OCR. “We […]
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 trust network concepts. WHY IT MATTERS DirectTrust lists several benefits to the TIM+ standard, such as its ability to keep participants within their native workflows […]
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 case involves an employee’s stolen MacBook laptop, which was solemn from their car in a public parking lot on February 25, […]
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) who developed the app with Simula research laboratory, expressed their disappointment with the NDPA’s decision, underlining that any setbacks with the app will only stall the country’s […]
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 component. But security concerns are a major sticking point, as scientists and researchers weigh what data, and how much of it, to […]
