Ireland's Cyber Crime Conference in Dublin drew a capacity crowd for a full day of security briefings, networking, hotly contested capture-the-flag and secure-coding challenges, as well as a chance to sharpen one's lock-picking skills.
Despite near-constant warnings from law enforcement officials and the information security community, too many organizations still aren't taking security seriously, experts warned at the Irish Cyber Crime Conference in Dublin.
There is an infinite amount of malware code at attackers' disposal yet a finite number of skilled security staff able to deal with
the volume of noise they create daily. If the last year of unending breach headlines is a barometer, it's safe to assume that legacy
approaches to security will not cut it in this new...
In the latest in a string of major cyber-attacks in the healthcare sector, UCLA Health confirms that information on 4.5 million individuals may have been exposed when hackers breached its network in an attack that appears to have begun last September.
As the number of major health data breaches continues to climb, federal regulators are taking steps to make the process of reporting breaches using online tools more efficient, hoping that will help ease the launching of investigations.
The U.S. Postal Service on Nov. 10 confirmed a data breach that affected some of its information systems. This infographic offers a timeline of the breach investigation provided by an official during a Congressional hearing.
In the year since federal regulators began enforcing the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, there's been a huge spike in the number of major breaches reported. What's behind the surge?
Community Health Systems, which operates 206 hospitals, says a network breach exposed 4.5 million patients' personal information. Forensics experts believe the attacker was an "advanced persistent threat group originating from China."
A robust incident response plan is essential to comply with the HIPAA Omnibus rule -- and to minimize the impact of a breach, says Seattle Children's Hospital CISO Cris Ewell.
It's well known that lost or stolen unencrypted computing devices account for the majority of large health data breaches. But a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services shines a light on how frequently breaches - especially smaller ones - involve paper records.
The federal tally of major health data breaches has hit a new milestone; it now lists more than 1,000 incidents affecting 500 or more individuals. Experts weigh in on the lessons to be learned from the details of these breaches.
As a result of the new breach notification requirements under the HIPAA Omnibus rule, it's critical for organizations to test their breach response plans, says security specialist Andrew Hicks.
Many health data breaches still go undetected and unreported, says security expert Kate Borten, who analyzes findings from the recent 2014 Healthcare Information Security Today survey.
More than 30.6 million individuals have been affected by major healthcare data breaches since 2009, the latest federal tally shows. Some security experts predict breach trends will shift, with business associates being implicated more often.
If Congress fails to enact a national breach notification law, the Obama administration could develop a set of voluntary best practices along the lines of its new cybersecurity framework.
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