Ebola has caught the attention of consumers, the media and now cyber criminals. According to ZDNet’s Violet Blue, the United States of Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) sent an alert for consumers to be on watch for email scams involving Ebola news as phishing bait. The alert stated, “Phishing emails may contain links that direct [...]
While stories about large-scale financial and retail breaches are making headlines on a regular basis, it is medical identity theft that should be taking center stage. Why? In 2013, the healthcare industry experienced more data breaches than ever before, accounting for 43% of all breaches that year.In the most recent edition of our cyberSAFE webinar [...]
This week, JPMorgan Chase announced its third quarter profit after facing a challenging data breach. CEO Jamie Dimon shared his perspective into the state of cyber security as it stands today.Saabira Chaudhuri and Emily Glazer of the Wall Street Journal followed the major elements of the posting and reported that “the bank’s expenses for regulation [...]
On October 14, 2014, three Google researchers announced the details of a vulnerability in the design of SSL version 3 named the POODLE (Passing Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) vulnerability. This vulnerability affects all implementations of SSLv3.0 protocol, but does not affect the newer encryption mechanism known as TLS (Transport Security Layer). Under the right [...]
Medical identity theft is not a new topic; however the rise of the amount of cases in the healthcare industry is starting to cast a shadow on the healthcare industry. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, medical identity theft accounted for 43 percent of all identity theft cases in 2013. Additionally, the FBI recently [...]
Today’s digital generation has made it nearly impossible to keep your identity hidden online. Social networking and sharing has created a culture of transparency, which can be beneficial when used for good, but extremely dangerous in the hands of cyber criminals. In the spirit of celebrating National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), we wanted to [...]
On September 24, 2014, the Shellshock bug was discovered, exposing vulnerabilities in Unix and Linux machines. The aftermath of the Shellshock bug has continued to stay in headlines as a wave of new vulnerabilities have emerged.Threatpost’s Michael Mimoso explains that Shellshock has been actively exploited: “Analysis into the vulnerability and Bash behavior once it was [...]
This guest blog post is a part of our cyberSAFE blog series focusing on medical identity theft and health IT topics. It comes to us from Kara Wright, the Digital Media Coordinator for the National Cyber Security Alliance. She assists the operation and development of the STOP. THINK. CONNECT. and National Cyber Security Awareness Month [...]
Medical identity theft is a growing risk for patients and the medical industry. Ponemon Research found that in 2012 and 2013, 90 percent of healthcare organizations exposed or lost patient data. The industry has seen more than 200 breach incidents in 2014 alone. And to top it all off, medical identity theft victims estimate the [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released cyber security guidelines for medical devices this week, recommending that manufacturers consider and submit cybersecurity risks associated with the medical device of their making and provide ways to mitigate risk via operating system and software updates.USA Today’s Elizabeth Weise reported that the Director of Emergency Preparedness at [...]
