Bad guys need to constantly find new ways to lure their victims

"Bad guys need to constantly find new ways to lure their victims. If billing notifications were very common for a while, not all people in a company are working with such kind of documents. Which [...]

August 30th, 2016 |Categories: Healthcare, KnowBe4, Ransomware, Security, HIPAA

What will they think of next?

That's the content of an email I received from one of our clients this morning. He sent us an article he read about hackers ability to gain control of wireless keyboard and mouse from as far as 90 [...]

August 4th, 2016 |Categories: Technology, Security, Passwords, Hacking, Fraud

Another 3.7M Records Potentially Breached

The hits just keep coming! Arizona-based Banner Health recently announced that it had experienced a cybersecurity attack potentially affecting 3.7 million patients, members and beneficiaries, [...]

August 4th, 2016 |Categories: HealthITSecurity, Healthcare, PCI, HIPAA, Banner, Breach, Compliance

Top 10 Phone Scams Revealed

With all the ongoing talk of ransomware and the continued rise of cybercrime we may forget that phone scams continue to run rampant. I (Paul) have recently been the subject of one of the IRS phone [...]

August 3rd, 2016 |Categories: irs, Security, knowbe4.com, ftc, robocall, Scam

ONC establishes a suite of guides aimed at boosting EHR safety

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced this week that it has issued nine guides to help healthcare organizations assess the safety of electronic health records and to use them [...]

August 2nd, 2016 |Categories: OCR, Healthcare, SAFER, HIPAA, FierceHealthcare, Compliance, HHS

Security: A Checklist for Being Prepared

If we have learned anything over the years of working with healthcare providers (65% of our customers are either providers or Business Associates) we have leasrned that IT Security is paramount. [...]

July 29th, 2016 |Categories: OCR, Healthcare, DR, Security, HIPAA, Compliance

Why do I need to change my passwords?

We are asked this question frequently, and especially from our healthcare customers whose doctors and staff are frustrated by the password policies typically set to change them every 90 days. So, why [...]

July 28th, 2016 |Categories: HITECH, OCR, Healthcare, Security, Passwords, HIPAA, Hacking, Compliance, HHS

HIPAA fines at record levels

We are six months in and 2016 is already a record-breaking year for HIPAA enforcement actions from the Health and Human Services Department's Office for Civil Rights. According to a couple of recent [...]

July 28th, 2016 |Categories: Uncategorized

Healthcare tops for ransomware incidents in Q2

Roughly 88 percent of all ransomware detected was discovered in healthcare, while the next most targeted industry was education at 6 percent, according to the report, published by Solutionary. One [...]

Have you been a victim of CEO Fraud?

Have you been a victim of CEO fraud? Are you aware that one of the first things hackers try is to see if they can spoof the email address of your CEO? If they are able to commit "CEO Fraud", [...]

July 21st, 2016 |Categories: CEO, SEIM, Technology, KnowBe4, Security, FIM, Fraud