The Sad State of Technical Vulnerabilities

A recent study by ServiceNow and the Ponemon Institute provides important information about the state of many organizations’ security and the lack of patches being installed for discovered vulnerabilities. For the study, the Ponemon Institute surveyed 3,000...

GE Medical Devices Vulnerable, Fixes Suggested by DHS

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) recently discovered that some GE Medical Devices are vulnerable to malicious attackers. On March 13, the ICS-CERT published information on how some of GE’s...

Threat to PHI: Computer Processor Vulnerabilities

On January 5, the OCR sent out an emergency update to the security and privacy email lists notifying health care organizations about new discovered computer vulnerabilities that may affect PHI. In the update, the OCR linked to a report from the Healthcare...