Why Healthcare Security Matters

ronjor · Jan 31, 2017

IBM calls healthcare industry a 'leaky vessel in a stormy sea'

By Charlie Osborne January 31, 2017 -- 16:00 GMT (08:00 PST)
New research suggests that not enough is being done to protect medical systems and patient data.
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ronjor · Feb 1, 2017

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Hospital Cancels Appointments of 2,800 Patients Due to Ransomware Infection

http://news.softpedia.com/news/hosp...ents-due-to-ransomware-infection-510762.shtml
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Misconfigured firewall blamed for hospital ransomware infection

By Danny Palmer | February 1, 2017 -- 11:57 GMT (03:57 PST)
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust blames "a misconfiguration of the firewall" for a cyberattack which resulted in 2,800 appointment cancellations.
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Minimalist · Feb 1, 2017

Let's see if they release more information once the investigation is over.

ronjor · Feb 7, 2017

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St. Jude Merlin@home Transmitter Vulnerability
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St. Jude Merlin@home Transmitter Vulnerability (Update A)

Original release date: January 09, 2017 | Last revised: February 06, 2017
This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSMA-17-009-01 St. Jude Merlin@home Transmitter Vulnerability that was published January 9, 2017, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site.
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ronjor · Feb 10, 2017

Hospital devices left vulnerable, leave patients at risk

By Ryan Francis Managing Editor, CSO | Feb 9, 2017 2:02 PM PT
Report shows how malware sneaks its way past firewalls
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ronjor · Feb 10, 2017

FDA one of many 'toothless dragons' with no will to tackle medical device security

By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day | February 10, 2017 -- 15:08 GMT (07:08 PST)
A security expert says the dragons need to start breathing fire to keep patients safe from medical device security flaws.
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ronjor · Feb 16, 2017

MEDJACK.3 Poses Advanced Threat To Hospital Devices

Kelly Sheridan 2/16/2017
A newly discovered version of the "medical device hijack" attack targets older operating systems to bypass security measures and steal patient data.
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ronjor · Feb 20, 2017

25% of healthcare organizations using public cloud do not encrypt data
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ronjor · Feb 21, 2017

Experts weigh in on the state of medical device security today and beyond

By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day | February 21, 2017 -- 10:00 GMT (02:00 PST)
Security experts reveal their thoughts on the true threats to healthcare providers and patients now and in the future.
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Minimalist · Feb 21, 2017

Healthcare data breaches reach a ‘sizeable number of US consumers’

Approximately 26% of Americans have been compromised by healthcare data breaches, according to a new survey from Accenture.

The global professional services company also found that half of the victims of data breaches had suffered from medical identity theft – a crime that costs consumers an average of $2,500.

In 37% of cases, stolen details were used to purchase items or for other fraudulent activities, such as billing for care. Filling prescriptions (26%) was another way stolen information was used by criminals.
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http://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/...-breaches-reach-sizeable-number-us-consumers/

Minimalist · Feb 21, 2017

The Healthcare Underground: Electronic Health Records for Sale

In 2016, 91 percent of the U.S. population had health insurance coverage which means at a given time, any person will be effected in the event of a healthcare data breach. How it affects individuals may differ case by case perspective, but its impact to affected people and healthcare institutions are far from mild. In our latest research paper titled Cybercrime and Other Threats Faced by Healthcare Industry, we look at the other side of a healthcare data breach and trace back what happens to electronic health records (EHR) after they are stolen.
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http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...e-underground-electronic-health-records-sale/

ronjor · Feb 22, 2017

Is healthcare industry’s security spending focused on the wrong technologies?

Help Net Security February 21, 2017

Global healthcare IT professionals are confronting a rapidly changing, challenging landscape, with 66% experiencing a data breach and 88% feeling vulnerable as a result. In response, 73% are increasing IT security spending to offset threats to data, according to Thales and 451 Research.
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ronjor · Feb 23, 2017

These Were the Top Threats Targeting Healthcare Firms in Q4 2016

By Kevin Townsend on February 23, 2017
Healthcare is a consistent target for cybercriminals, with IBM's 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index claiming it had become the single most attacked industry. Today FortiGuard Labs has released details on the top 5 methods used to attack healthcare in Q4, 2016.
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Minimalist · Feb 27, 2017

NHS patient letters meant for GPs went undelivered for years

The NHS has been accused of covering up a large data loss involving the loss or mislaying of more than half a million pieces of confidential information.

Confidential medical correspondence – including test results, diagnoses and treatment plans – between GPs and hospitals went undelivered during the five years from 2011 to 2016, The Guardian reports. The problem arose because the firm tasked with arranging the delivery of internal NHS correspondence mistakenly stored it in a warehouse.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/27/nhs_data_loss/

Minimalist · Feb 28, 2017

Hospital workers across the country are at risk of identity fraud after a national cyber attack

Computer hackers have stolen private files from the company Landauer, which is employed by the NHS to monitor radiation levels among staff.

They hold personal details such as names, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and radiation dose of workers across the county including from Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital.
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http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/ne..._hackers_steal_private_files_in_cyber_attack/

ronjor · Mar 2, 2017

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Trojan malware blamed for cyberattack at Barts Health NHS hospitals
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'Previously unseen' malware behind cyberattack against UK's biggest hospital group

By Danny Palmer | March 2, 2017 -- 11:24 GMT (03:24 PST)
Despite being up-to-date, Barts Health NHS Trust's antivirus software didn't recognize a new threat as malicious. The vendor has since issued a patch.
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Minimalist · Mar 3, 2017

Video: Is security overstated in healthcare?

Two leading healthcare CIOs say the perception that IT security concerns are holding back e-health technology isn't grounded in reality.
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/video-is-security-overstated-in-healthcare-453398

Minimalist · Mar 24, 2017

Healthcare IT pros believe data is safer in the cloud

Healthcare IT professionals and executives believe overwhelmingly that when facing hardware malfunctions and environmental disasters, their organization’s data is safer in the cloud than on premises, according to Evolve IP.
The survey also revealed a preference for private over public clouds with about 60 percent preferring private cloud infrastructure over public clouds for data security. The survey of more than 180 healthcare professionals, which provides current cloud adoption trends and future cloud deployment insights, also revealed that 85 percent of all healthcare organizations now have at least one service in the cloud.
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/03/24/healthcare-data-safe-cloud/

ronjor · Mar 24, 2017

Blockchain can help secure medical devices, improve patient privacy

Tim Greene (Network World) on 24 March, 2017 22:44
Performance problems and blockchain’s association with criminal use are obstacles
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Minimalist · Mar 27, 2017

Cyber criminals targeting healthcare orgs’ FTP servers

“The FBI is aware of criminal actors who are actively targeting File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers operating in ‘anonymous’ mode and associated with medical and dental facilities to access protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) in order to intimidate, harass, and blackmail business owners,” says the notification.
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/03/27/healthcare-ftp-servers/

Minimalist · Mar 30, 2017

The Mistakes of Smart Medicine

A technological boom in medicine both encouraged medical institutions to use exclusively information systems in processing data and led to the emergence of new types of technological equipment and personal devices that can be used to interact with traditional systems and networks. This means that the threats that are relevant for them can also be relevant for medical systems.
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https://securelist.com/analysis/publications/77855/the-mistakes-of-smart-medicine/

Minimalist · Apr 5, 2017

Half a million 'de-identified' patients records to be shared in Bradford
The UK city of Bradford is to share the "de-identified" medical data of half a million patients from 88 GP surgeries across the region. We're told this will help improve treatments for frailty and childhood obesity.

Under the Connected Health City project, the data will be shared across two trusts, three clinical commissioning groups Bradford Council and the Sue Ryder charity for palliative care.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/..._deidentified_patients_records_across_region/

Minimalist · Apr 6, 2017

The Data Show Hospitals Need To Do Better At Protecting Your Personal Data
How safe is your personal data at hospitals? Well, a study just published in JAMA Internal Medicine found 1,798 incidences of large data breaches in patient information over roughly a seven-year period (October 21, 2009, to December 31, 2016). And these weren't small "oops" that affected just a few patients. These were cybersecurity failures either from hacks or mistakes that in each case exposed the records of more than 500 individuals.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...to-do-better-at-protecting-your-personal-data

ronjor · Apr 6, 2017

"Philadelphia" Ransomware Targets Healthcare Industry

By Ionut Arghire on April 06, 2017
A newly observed ransomware family is being used in attacks against organizations in the healthcare industry, Forcepoint security researchers reveal.
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ronjor · Apr 6, 2017

Teaching Hospitals at Greater Data Breach Risk

Dark Reading Staff 4/6/2017
John Hopkins researcher studies data breaches at hospitals between 2009 and 2016.
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