The BBC and other news outlets are reporting that a major incident has been declared after NHS services across England and Scotland were hit by a large-scale cyber-attack. A respected London newspaper is reporting that this appears to be part of a larger cybersecurity attack on Windows system worldwide.
President Donald Trump has signed a long-awaited executive order that places responsibility for cybersecurity on departmental secretaries & agency directors. It emphasizes the use of risk management throughout the federal government to secure digital assets.
The executive order, signed Thursday by President Trump, calls for the modernizing of federal information technology, read the key points here.
Federal regulators slapped a Houston-based healthcare system with a $2.4 million HIPAA settlement stemming from the disclosure of one patient’s information to the news media without the individual’s consent. Do you think that’s excessive? Read on … the details are quite interesting.
The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning to IT services providers, healthcare organizations and three other business sectors about a sophisticated cyber-attack campaign that has been active since April 2016.
