Healthcare

With a little SDR knowledge and a $20 USB dongle, attackers can read unencrypted pager messages from tens of kilometers away. Who still uses pagers in this day and age? Healthcare facilities. Goodbye, PHI.

HIPAA offers healthcare enterprises a comprehensive guide on ransomware incidents, from prevention tactics to proper management and response.

Banner Health is the newest victim of attackers targeting healthcare enterprises, but the method of attack can be compared to an older incident.

Evidence of a ransomware infection has been uncovered from the systems of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology of the Rockies, P.C. (AAIR) in Colorado--adding it to the growing list of healthcare institutions preyed on by ransomware.

A new ransomware variant called SAMSAM was discovered targeting several hospitals.

Two more healthcare facilities fall to a crypto-ransomware attack as MedStar Health and Prime Healthcare get shut down by the cyber-extortion scheme.

Kentucky-based Methodist Hospital announced a ransomware attack that led to an “internal state of emergency.”

Cancer treatment center, 21st Century Oncology Holdings divulged details of a data breach that affects 2.2 million of its patients.

Part 3 of the FuTuRology project speculates on future healthcare tech that could provide opportunities for attackers and threats to healthcare users.