Why Healthcare Security Matters

ronjor · Jul 15, 2016

Hundreds of Flaws Found in Philips Healthcare Product

By Eduard Kovacs on July 15, 2016

Researchers have identified hundreds of high severity vulnerabilities in a healthcare product from Philips. The vendor has released software updates that address the issues.
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ronjor · Jul 18, 2016

New HIPAA Guidance Tackles Ransomware Epidemic In Healthcare

7/15/2016 Kelly Jackson Higgins

The US Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights this week issued guidelines for helping healthcare organizations understand, prevent, and prepare for ransomware attacks. It provides information on what ransomware is, how attacks work, how to spot it, how to quell damage, and of course how to protect data with regular backups. The guidance notes that existing HIPAA requirements basically cover ransomware attacks, and explains how a ransomware attack maps to those rules.
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ronjor · Jul 19, 2016

How a healthcare hacker is pressuring victims to pay up

A hacker who claims to have stolen 10 million patient records is extorting victims for money

Michael Kan (IDG News Service) on 19 July, 2016 10:50
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ronjor · Jul 21, 2016

Oops! Unencrypted health info on Denmark’s entire population was sent to China contractor

Liam Tung (CSO Online) on 21 July, 2016 08:48
Denmark may be the first nation to experience a privacy breach that affects the entire population thanks to two mishandled CDs holding data from an organisation that monitors contagious diseases.
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lotuseclat79 · Jul 22, 2016

The Secret Documents That Detail How Patients' Privacy Is Breached

When the federal government takes the rare step of fining medical providers for violating the privacy and security of patients' medical information, it issues a press release and posts details on the web.
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-- Tom

ronjor · Jul 27, 2016

HHS Penalizes Philadelphia Healthcare Organization For HIPAA Violation

Jai Vijayan 7/27/2016 05:30 PM

Catholic Health Care Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia agrees to pay $650,000 fine over 2014 data breach.
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ronjor · Aug 3, 2016

Hacker Steals 100,000 Docs from Ohio Heath System

3 Aug 2016 Michael Hill Deputy Editor , Infosecurity Magazine
A Ukrainian hacker has claimed responsibility for pinching more than 100,000 internal documents from an Ohio-based health system.
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ronjor · Aug 4, 2016

3.7M potential victims of US health service hack

Banner Health said payment card, patient information and other data could have been pilfered

John Ribeiro (IDG News Service) on 04 August, 2016 12:57
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ronjor · Aug 4, 2016

Illinois hospital chain to pay record $5.5M for exposing data about millions of patients

By Lucas Mearian Computerworld | Aug 4, 2016 2:06 PM PT

Advocate Health Care Network was fined for several violations
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ronjor · Aug 22, 2016

Many hospitals transmit your health records unencrypted

By Lucas Mearian Computerworld | Aug 22, 2016 1:39 PM PT
Healthcare IT organizations often lack budget and personnel to address security needs
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Jery · Aug 22, 2016

Celebrities, the rich and also complicated disease sufferers might the at the high risk of being their medical records hacked I guess. There are some people who refuses to give privacy.

TheWindBringeth · Aug 25, 2016

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/26/muddy_waters_medsec_st_jude_security_flaws/

Researchers at MedSec Holdings, a cybersecurity startup in Miami, Florida, found numerous holes in pacemakers and defibrillators manufactured by St Jude Medical. Instead of telling the maker straightaway, the crew first went to investment house Muddy Waters Capital to make money off the situation.
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http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/25/reut...n-heart-device-hacking-fears-shares-drop.html

Muddy Waters head Carson Block said his short position in St Jude was motivated by research from a cyber security firm, MedSec Holdings Inc, which asserted that St Jude's heart devices, including pacemakers, were vulnerable to hacking and presented a risk to patients.

MedSec approached Muddy Waters about three months ago and the two struck a deal under which Block agreed to hire the cyber security firm as a consultant, pay it a licensing fee for the research and percentage of any profits from the investment, Block told Reuters.
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Researchers typically disclose bugs by approaching affected firms, working with agencies that facilitate patching of bugs or presenting them at peer-reviewed cyber security conferences.

MedSec Chief Executive Justine Bone told Reuters that her firm decided to not adhere to those practices.

We have expenses we incur. This is a business relationship," she told Reuters. "But our goal here is to bring this to the attention of the public."
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Sigh.

ronjor · Aug 26, 2016

Brainjacking: Hacking brain implants

Zeljka Zorz - Managing Editor August 26, 2016

A group of researchers, neurosurgeons, and doctors of philosophy from Oxford Functional Neurosurgery and several Oxford University departments have recently published a paper exploring the issue of brain implant hacking (“brainjacking”).
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ronjor · Sep 6, 2016

8 Security Categories Healthcare Providers Need to Improve On

Steve Zurier 9/6/2016

A new survey by HIMSS finds that many providers don't even cover the basics of IT security.
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ronjor · Sep 8, 2016

TheWindBringeth said: ↑

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/26/muddy_waters_medsec_st_jude_security_flaws/

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/25/reut...n-heart-device-hacking-fears-shares-drop.html

Sigh.
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St. Jude Sues MedSec Over Device Security Allegations

By Eduard Kovacs on September 08, 2016

St. Jude Medical has filed a lawsuit against MedSec and Muddy Waters, claiming that the companies made financially motivated false statements regarding the security of its medical devices.
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ronjor · Sep 8, 2016

FTC Panel Encourages Basic Security Hygiene to Counter Ransomware

by Chris Brook September 8, 2016 , 9:00 am

When asked to describe what it’s like to deal with the constantly looming threat of ransomware, Chad Wilson, the Director of Information Security at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C., didn’t beat around the bush.
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ronjor · Sep 10, 2016

Compromised electronic health records may haunt you forever

Zeljka Zorz - Managing EditorSeptember 9, 2016
A recent report on the Deep Web black market for electronic health records (EHRs) by researchers affiliated with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology has pointed out what most of us already know: healthcare systems are relentlessly and incessantly attacked by different types of attackers.
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ronjor · Sep 12, 2016

ronjor said: ↑

St. Jude Sues MedSec Over Device Security Allegations
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FDA Probes Report Of Security Flaws In St. Jude Cardiac Devices

9/12/2016 10:00 AM Dark Reading Staff

US Food and Drug Administration is investigating charge that St. Jude medical devices can be exploited by hackers.
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ronjor · Sep 21, 2016

National Health ISAC Calls For Collaborative Vuln Disclosure

Sara Peters 9/21/2016
St. Jude Medical to host upcoming workshop on medical device info sharing, convened by NH-ISAC and medical device security consortium
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ronjor · Sep 26, 2016

How to keep terrifying medical device hacks from becoming reality

By Bob Brown Network World | Sep 25, 2016 10:24 PM PT
Security of Things Forum panel addresses the threat of networked medical device vulnerabilities
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Minimalist · Sep 26, 2016

Leaking Beeps: Here’s A Reason to Kick Pagers out of Hospitals

Today, the Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research team released the paper Leaking Beeps: Unencrypted Pager Messages in the Healthcare Industry, our research about a weakness we identified in pager technology. If you are concerned about keeping your health information private, I would highly recommend you read through it. I, for one, was not expecting the findings we made. Pagers are secure, right? We’ve used them for decades, they are hard to monitor, and that’s why some of our most trusted industries use them, including the healthcare sector.
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http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...ing-beeps-heres-reason-kick-pagers-hospitals/

ronjor · Sep 30, 2016

Sensitive US health and drug data left exposed by dozens of FDA security flaws

By Liam Tung | September 30, 2016 -- 13:02 GMT (06:02 PDT)

The US Food and Drug Administration hasn't had an OPM-style breach, but it's left plenty of doors wide open, says government watchdog GAO.
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Minimalist · Oct 1, 2016

Marin patients’ medical data lost after cyber attack

The Marin Healthcare District and Prima Medical Foundation are notifying more than 5,000 patients that some of their medical data was lost due to a glitch that followed a ransomware attack in August.

Prima Medical Foundation supports the Prima Medical Group, many of whose doctors work closely with Marin General Hospital.

The computer records of Marin Medical Practice Concepts, a Novato company that provides medical billing and electronic medical records services to many Marin physicians, were hacked on July 26. As a result, some Marin doctors were unable to access their patients’ medical records for more than a week.
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http://www.siliconvalley.com/2016/09/30/marin-patients-medical-data-lost-after-cyber-attack/

ronjor · Oct 4, 2016

Hackers can remotely exploit insulin pump for unauthorized insulin injections

By Ms. Smith
Hackers can remotely exploit insulin pump for unauthorized insulin injections
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ronjor · Oct 25, 2016

Electronic health records: The new gold standard for cybercriminals

By Michael Kassner | October 24, 2016, 1:47 PM PST
Electronic health record (EHR) systems are being compromised by script kiddies, cybercriminals, self-radicalized threat actors, and nation states. Learn how and why.
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