HHS OCR has settled another enforcement action involving the HIPAA Security Rule. From their press release yesterday, it sounds like an insider wrongdoing case. In its formal resolution agreement, the government states that on October 23, 2018, OCR received a complaint alleging that on October 8, 2018, an unknown third party accessed her printed and…
Bill Toulas reports: A 36-year-old Yemeni national, who is believed to be the developer and primary operator of ‘Black Kingdom’ ransomware, has been indicted by the United States for conducting 1,500 attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers. The suspect, Rami Khaled Ahmed, is accused of deploying the Black Kingdom malware on roughly 1,500 computers in the United…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform called AkiraBot that’s used to spam website chats, comment sections, and contact forms to promote dubious search engine optimization (SEO) services such as Akira and ServicewrapGO. “AkiraBot has targeted more than 400,000 websites and successfully spammed at least 80,000 websites since September
HHS added ten listings to its public leak site today, all of which are part of the Integrated Oncology Network (“ION”). According to its substitute notice, on May 9, ION concluded an investigation of a phishing incident that occurred between December 13 and December 16, 2024. The incident resulted in “unauthorized access to patient information…
Let’s be honest: if you’re one of the first (or the first) security hires at a small or midsize business, chances are you’re also the unofficial CISO, SOC, IT Help Desk, and whatever additional roles need filling. You’re not running a security department. You are THE security department. You’re getting pinged about RFPs in one…
The United States Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has proposed new cybersecurity requirements for healthcare organizations with an aim to safeguard patients’ data against potential cyber attacks. The proposal, which seeks to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, is part of a broader…
If you invite guest users into your Entra ID tenant, you may be opening yourself up to a surprising risk. A gap in access control in Microsoft Entra’s subscription handling is allowing guest users to create and transfer subscriptions into the tenant they are invited into, while maintaining full ownership of them. All the guest…
