Privacy & Security
This week's top stories include the House approving a bill that expands the scope of those who qualify for financial help, bad bots jeopardizing vaccine appointments, and PatientPoint merging with Outcome Health.
The API is aimed at giving healthcare app developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage consent regarding health data use.
Health system websites are being buffeted with bad bots – an increase of 372% over the past six months, according to a new report – and that's making it harder to secure spots for COVID-19 vaccination.
A healthcare cybersecurity expert offers key advice on how best to protect digital assets.
Such attempts are up 580% since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and healthcare is a major target, a new Crowdstrike report shows.
The September 2020 apparent ransomware incident led to a network shutdown throughout the health system's U.S. facilities.
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Also, data reveals surge in vaccine-related cyber-attacks.
The same hacker group took a similar tactic in February, posting tens of thousands of stolen patient records to the dark web in an apparent extortion attempt.
With new ransomware tricks and recent attempts at "double extortion" on the black market, there's been "a marked change in adversarial intent," says Caleb Barlow, CEO of CynergisTek.