Several recent data breaches involving email mishaps serve as a reminder of precautions that healthcare entities must take with protected health information contained in digital communications that are sent or received by their organizations.
The ruling to dismiss the FTC's data security case against medical lab LabMD will result in FTC staff more carefully vetting the enforcement cases the agency pursues against all other companies in the future, predicts former FTC attorney Reed Freeman.
As U.S. merchants shore up physical point-of-sale security by upgrading their terminals to accept EMV chip cards, attackers are turning their aim toward new, unattended targets. Here's the latest on how to respond to "shimming" attacks.
A messy legal saga between the FTC and LabMD, related to a data security dispute, appears closer to ending with a significant win for the medical testing lab. What comes next in this hotly-contested case?
The Irish Reporting and Information Security Service's IRISSCON Cyber Crime Conference is due to touch on DDoS, fraud, breach response, malware, social engineering, the Paris terror attacks and more.
The massive cyberattacks that struck Chase and other leading U.S. financial services firms illustrate just how vulnerable larger institutions can be to cyber-attacks. They also show why organizations must encrypt customer data, says security and forensics expert Chuck Easttom.
Because hackers often find a way to stick around or repeat their network intrusions after remediation efforts are completed, organizations need to ramp up their "continuous detection" efforts, says security expert Wendi Whitmore of CrowdStrike.
In the wake of massive health data breaches, four U.S. Senators are demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services provide details about how it tracks medical ID theft and fraud and assists victims. But is HHS positioned to address the issues?
A data breach potentially affecting 16,000 patients at a group of Texas pediatric clinics spotlights the challenges in preventing and detecting breaches involving insiders who are authorized to access records.
An upcoming Verizon report on health data breaches illustrates that the data is at risk at organizations outside of the healthcare sector, and not just at hospitals, clinics, insurers and their business associates, says security expert Suzanne Widup of Verizon Enterprise Solutions.
Banks need to prepare for many more massive cyberattacks along the lines of the sophisticated campaign that hit JPMorgan Chase and other financial services organizations, says Javelin Strategy & Research's Al Pascual, who offers risk management insights.
This year's Black Hat Europe information security conference in Amsterdam will tackle cloud security failures, self-encrypted drive shortcomings, cybercrime on the Dark Web and more.
U.S. authorities have indicted three men for their alleged involvement in a massive cyberattack scheme that affected JPMorgan Chase and 11 other U.S. banks and financial services corporations.
Cable TV provider Cox Communications will pay a fine and implement a seven-year monitoring program to settle an FCC complaint after suffering a 2014 breach at the hands of a Lizard Squad hacker. Find out the size of the FCC's latest breach-related penalty.
Hartford Hospital and its business associate, EMC Corp., have agreed to pay a fine as part of a health data breach settlement with Connecticut's attorney general. Learn about the size of the financial penalty and other settlement details.
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