Cybercrime-as-a-service

A recent blog from FierceHealthcare outlines the growing rise in the criminal world of Cybercrime-as-a-Service that is specifically focused on the healthcare industry. The focus is sharpening due to [...]

November 7th, 2016 |Categories: Technology, Healthcare, Cybercrime, Security, HIPAA, Compliance, Intel

Business Executive Compromise or Fraud

This is a follow-up to a post to an email alert that went to our customers regarding executive fraud as outlined in an article by Verne Harnish of Gazelles and Scaling Up. CEO, and business executive [...]

November 4th, 2016 |Categories: Social Engineering, Security, Gazelles, BEC

The internet is still very much in beta

Vint Cerf, the father of the Internet said so himself. He was quoted in the book Fatal System Error:

October 28th, 2016 |Categories: internet, KnowBe4, Security, Training

How vulnerable is the Internet, and how vulnerable are we?

There was a massive internet outage on Friday. Shutting down access to many popular sites like Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, and more than 1200 domains across the internet. The attack was, in part, [...]

October 24th, 2016 |Categories: DDoS, Krebs, Twitter, DynDNS, Security, Amazon, IoT

Hacking is Easy

A security incident is inevitable for two reasons:

October 18th, 2016 |Categories: Social Engineering, Cybercrime, Phishing, Security, ITSecurity

Yes, The HIPAA Technical Safeguards Can Work To Prevent Healthcare Data Breaches

As hacking and cyberattacks continue to occur and lead to healthcare data breaches, technical safeguards are become increasingly important for healthcare organizations.

October 10th, 2016 |Categories: OCR, Healthcare, Security, HIPAA, Compliance, HHS

Healthcare Providers Be Prepared, More Oversight is Coming

The Department of Health and Human Services needs to improve its security and privacy guidance and oversight program, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

October 7th, 2016 |Categories: OCR, Healthcare, NIST, GAO, Security, HIPAA, Compliance, HHS

Ransomware spreads like a virus in the cloud

The focus on exploitation never stops, and the hackers are always one step ahead. Today we were notified in an artcile from the folks at www.knowbe4.com of an obscure 2-year old ransomware strain [...]

October 5th, 2016 |Categories: virlock, Technology, netskope, Ransomware, Security, knowbe4.com

Employee Awareness is Ransomware's Greatest Protection

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, a great opportunity to strengthen your human firewall in the war against this ransomware epidemic. We love that term, "Human Firewall" - that is [...]

500 Million Hacked Yahoo Accounts Are A Phishing Paradise. Warn Your Users!

That's right, 500 Million Hacked Yahoo Accounts. This is an old hack, but Yahoo is now providing more information about the hack. Thanks to our friends at knowbe4.com for alerting us about this [...]

September 23rd, 2016 |Categories: Yahoo, OCR, knowbe4.come, Healthcare, Security, HIPAA, ITSecurity, Hacking, Compliance, HHS