NJ AG Smacks Practice With Hefty Fine for Vendor Breach

The New Jersey state attorney general has smacked a medical practice with a $418,000 penalty for a 2016 breach involving a vendor's misconfiguration of a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server that exposed health data of about 1,600 patients on the internet.Read more

'Wall of Shame' Health Data Breaches Added to Tally Vary Widely

Large breaches involving hackers continue to plague the healthcare sector this year, but incidents involving lower-tech issues, including mailing errors, also are persisting. breaches affecting 500 or more individuals have been reported since September 2009.Read more

Advocate Health Hit with Record $5.5 Million HIPAA Penalty

Settlement Stems from OCR's Investigation Into Three 2013 Breaches Read more

Partners CISO on Endpoint Security

Bolstering endpoint protection is a top security priority at Partners HealthCare this year, says Jigar Kadakia, CISO of the Boston-based integrated health system.Read more

'Wall of Shame' Hits New Milestone for Health Data Breaches

The federal tally that lists major health data breaches has hit a new milestone: More than 2,000 breaches affecting 500 or more individuals have been reported since September 2009.Read more

Advocate Health Hit with Record $5.5 Million HIPAA Penalty

Settlement Stems from OCR's Investigation Into Three 2013 Breaches Read more

$2.7 Million HIPAA Penalty for Two Smaller Breaches

In the wake of two 2013 breaches that affected a total of 7,066 individuals, Oregon Health & Science University says it will pay $2.7 million in a HIPAA settlement with federal regulators that includes a three-year corrective action plan. Read more

First Business Associate HIPAA Penalty Announced

$650,000 Fine After Investigation of Breach Affecting Just 412 Patients Read more

Bizmatics Cyberattack: Tracking the Impact of Hack of Cloud-Based EHR Vendor

The total impact of a 2015 hacker attack against cloud-based electronic health records vendor Bizmatics Inc. might not be known for months because it's still unclear how many of the company's group practice clients were affected - and how many records were compromised. Read more

Second Symantec Anti-Virus Bugfest Found

Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy has once again found significant vulnerabilities in Symantec's security products... Read more

Leaked: 154 million US voter records exposed

A database containing 154 million voter profiles on US citizens was exposed online without username or password protection, it has been revealed. Read more

GoToMyPC Initiates Mass Password Reset

Citrix-owned GoToMyPC, a remote access service, has initiated a mass password reset, a move other online service providers have taken following recent large leaks of login credentials for MySpace, LinkedIn and others Read more