Recently the JAMA Network Open monthly medical journal published the research on the unallowed ePHI accession. The results showed, that the immediate alert sent to employees’ emails after their unauthorized access to patient's electronic records prevented them from repeated snooping. Only a few ...

There was an announcement in Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) blog about the undermining ZLoader botnet. It is a network of bots that belongs to the infamous grouping of cybercriminals. This botnet-managed malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model spread ransomware. Microsoft’s DCU even suspects a ...

The tendency of healthcare data breaches continues to grow. As healthcare security violations go on impacting small and big enterprises all over the USA, data breaches related claims spread rapidly. The law office BakerHostetler announced its Annual Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report. ...

Two days ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a public request for the information (RFI). The community should share its comments on two unmet requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 ...

Recently U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) legislated the Adoption of the Protecting and Transforming Cyber Health Care (PATCH) Act. It aims to heighten healthcare devices' security. Representatives Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) provided attendant regulation ...