Healthcare organizations (HCOs) around the world are under attack. The data they store and process has become a valuable commodity on the cybercriminal underground and has even been linked to nation state attacks. In 2015, more than 113 million records were stolen in the U.S. alone, according to the Department of Health and Human Services….
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In the third and final installment of the “Leaking Beeps” series, Trend Micro’s Forward-Looking Threat Research team reveal the risks posed by pager technology used in IT systems throughout various industries, including, healthcare, ICS, universities and enterprises. Once again, we were surprised by the vast amount of unencrypted data cybercriminals are able to access by…
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Doctors and pagers are two things that have been closely linked since the introduction of pagers in the 1960s. For decades, the doctor checking his (and later his or her) pager has been a staple in movies and television. And while you might have expected pagers to have gone way like rotary telephone (or any…
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A few months back I sat down over coffee with Dan Nutkis, the CEO of health information trust alliance HITRUST. The topic for discussion? How to tackle the massive and growing cyber threat facing our most vulnerable healthcare organizations, from the ground up. There and then I pledged Trend Micro’s 100% support, and that discussion…
Read More When it comes to healthcare security, media attention is usually focused on the mega breaches. But there is a long tail of smaller organizations who also need help. That’s where the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has expanded its focus. Its latest initiative, CyberAid, is designed specifically to help smaller healthcare organizations protect themselves from…
Read More US healthcare organizations have been in the firing line of cyber-attacks for years. Trend Micro research released last October revealed that, over the past decade, it has been the most attacked sector, accounting for over a quarter (26%) of all breaches since 2005. That’s why organizations like the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) are so…
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Established in 2006 by the Council of Australian Governments, Healthdirect Australia offers free health advice online and by phone. Its popular services attract one million phone calls each year and a million visits to its web properties every month. The firm was one of Amazon Web Services’ first customers when the cloud giant opened its…
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With the recent reports of several healthcare organizations being hit with crypto-ransomware, we’ve received many inquiries about the recent trends we’ve seen with this threat. Ransomware is nothing new, having evolved from the old Fake-AV days. What is new is the current pervasive nature, and corresponding ease of use. Plus, the capability to encrypt files…
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The problem with today’s threat landscape is that our perception can often be clouded by the latest headline-grabbing stories. To gain any real clarity into what’s actually happening and where the threats to our data lie, we need to pull back and look at broader trends. That’s exactly what data from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse…
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On May 20, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announced that they were the victim of a data breach in June 2014 that affects 1.1 million current and former customers. According to CareFirst, the data breach affects: member-created user names members’ names members’ birth dates members’ email addresses subscriber identification number. The data breach does not affect: members’…
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