Report: New ransomware found in targeted attacks against health care industry

Pacemakers from Abbott Laboratories can be hacked due to three significant vulnerabilities, the Department of Homeland Security's CERT team announced on Tuesday.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's decision to dismiss a class action suit on Tuesday.

Four days after its networks were infected, operations are still hamstrung at the pharmaceutical giant. U.S. employees have been reduced to keeping paper records of their work.

Op-ed: Skyhigh Networks' Sekhar Sarukkai looks at how enterprises should protect themselves in order to avoid a repeat of the Deep Root Analytics incident.

The health sector's continued expansion of network-connected technology will force greater cyber security efforts than ever before.

There's concern from some in the healthcare sector and key lawmakers about the Department of Health and Human Services' new national cybersecurity intelligence-sharing clearinghouse.

Fewer than one third of the largest 98 public and private hospitals in the United States secure their email against phishing and spamming, according to data released Thursday.

The company that pioneered safety certification for electrical devices at the end of the 19th century and went on to become a ubiquitous, reassuring logo on mains-powered electronic devices in the 20th, has quietly begun to issue cybersecurity certifications for networked software.

Many hospitals "may not know that they have experienced an attack until long after it has occurred."

The new version of the federal Cybersecurity Framework being drafted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology will be "backwards compatible."

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, taking a cue from Congress, has begun developing principles and best practices for cybersecurity in health care, officials said Tuesday.

Almost two-thirds of American consumers welcome advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and cybersecurity is among the areas where assistance from AI has the most appeal, according to a new survey.

"Have your humans work on human tasks and your computers work on computer tasks."

The health care sector's IT suffered from malicious insider attacks at a rate far higher than any other major industry in 2016.

A software bug in the Miele PG 8528 — a model used in hospitals and other healthcare facilities to disinfect medical equipment — would allow a hacker to break into the network supporting each appliance to install malware and potentially gain access to other systems, newly published research suggests.

As the case continues to draw legal action, the full picture is not yet known by the public.

No one knows what happened to the data after it was stolen.

Christopher Wlaschin retired after 28 years in the Navy in 2008 as a lieutenant commander and has held a variety of civilian jobs since, including several stints at major health care companies.

A rise in ransomware incidents and targeted data breaches caused more than 27 million healthcare patient records to be compromised, according to research compiled by security firm Protenus in collaboration with notification service DataBreaches.net.

34,000 patients had sensitive medical data stolen from Quest Diagnostics who say "the risk of harm to patients is low." Impacted patients have been notified.