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Data Stolen Again at Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) hacked again. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was hacked again. The employees were notified by the government agency via email that the attackers gained personal...
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Data loss: Companies lost 44 million records this year
Data loss will probably always be one of the major security threats, over past four years companies have lost an estimated 1.1 billion records and some 44 million records this year alone. Data loss and...
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Reduce Data Breach attacks – 3 steps guide
3 steps to reduce Data Breach in your organisation. In its 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon Enterprise reports that 74 percent of data breach incidents in small businesses are “crimes of...
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Boulder Community Health (BCH) investigating data breach
Someone mailed patients’ records to their homes to prove that Boulder Community Health (BCH) has lapses in security. Someone mailed patients’ records to their homes to prove that Boulder Community...
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Tools for Compliance management which can boost security
Tools for Compliance management which can boost security HIPAA has certain set of rules when it comes for compliance management. Compliance requirements are many times seen as an unnecessary burden but...
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Unresolved Network Events
Unresolved Network Events Survey was conducted for security issues by Emulex and the result shows that 73 percent of IT staff has unresolved network events. “An unresolved network event is one in which...
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A Pennsylvania healthcare service suffers data breach
A Pennsylvania healthcare service suffers data breach. A Pennsylvania healthcare service suffered data breach incident which may led to personal health information (PHI) misuse. According to the...
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Laptops with PHI missing
Laptops with PHI missing In the unprecedented event, few laptops went missing in the period of three years from ambulances in the Dallas area. According to the reports, laptops contained patient...
View ArticlePhishing attack leads to data breach
Partners Health Care System, Inc. suffered data breach when it learned that employees had fallen victim to a phishing scheme, providing sensitive information to unauthorized individuals. Affected...
View ArticleEmbarcadero Media Group Attacked by ‘Anonymous’
The websites of Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac, Mountain View Voice and Pleasanton Weekly were all reportedly attacked at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday. The company temporarily took the websites offline and...
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Oncology database and data breach
21st Century Oncology database was inappropriately accessed by an unauthorized third party. According to the reports, Oncology immediately hired a leading forensics firm to support the investigation,...
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Phishing Attack and Data Breach
A California-based cancer research and treatment center mentioned that some patient suffered data breach due to a phishing attack. According to the reports, four staff members had their email accounts...
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Unauthorised Access and Data Breach
University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center suffered data breach when a former employee improperly accessed health data.The employee has since been terminated.Affected information included patient...
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Unencrypted email and data breach
BJC Healthcare Accountable Care Organization (BCJ ACO) in the St. Louis area recently announced data breach when an unencrypted email was sent to a participating medical practice in the BCJ ACO.It...
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Computer glitch and Data Breach
Laborers’ Health & Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California discovered that a computer glitch caused certain consumer health information to be processed incorrectly. The incident affected the...
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Hospitals and Ransomware
The Ottawa Hospital, Kentucky Methodist Hospital, Chino Valley Medical Center and Desert Valley Hospital was recently infected with ransomware. As per Kentucky Methodist Hospital, “Methodist Hospital...
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Security Survey Conducted by SailPoint Market Pulse
SailPoint Market Pulse conducted survey which showed interesting results. According to the result, 20 percent of respondents said they would sell their passwords to a third party. Twenty percent of...
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Cyber Security Budgets Not In Tune With Rising Threats
Businesses are increasing their investment in cyber security but the landscape of threat is changing very rapidly. To remain secured one has to understand the possibility of cyber attacks in advance...
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Healthcare Data Security and Hackers
In recent times, hackers are looking for innovative ways to infiltrate through covered networks. With digitization of healthcare industry comes challenges to secure patient information. But the change...
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Data Breach Due to Email Misconduct
Val Verde Regional Medical Center recently announced data breach when unsecured PHI in an email was discovered. “On or about August 9, 2015, an independent healthcare provider downloaded unsecured...
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