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Warning! ChatGPT Exploit Used by Threat Actors in Cyber Attacks

Quarles & Brady LLP on 3/24/2025

Members of the health care and financial industries, along with other industries that hold sensitive data, are warned that a ChatGPT vulnerability is being actively exploited by threat actors to attack security flaws in AI...more

Microsoft Report Highlights Attacks Against Healthcare Organizations

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/24/2024

On October 22, 2024, Microsoft issued a threat trend research report entitled “US Healthcare at risk: Strengthening resilience against ransomware attacks.” In it, Microsoft declares that ransomware attacks against the...more

OCR Will Focus on You if You Don’t Focus on Cybersecurity

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 12/21/2023

With a couple of “firsts,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is signaling that it is cracking down on healthcare organizations that fail to identify and address cybersecurity...more

CISA Issues Mitigation Guide for Healthcare + Public Health Sector

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 12/1/2023

On November 17, 2023, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a supplemental mitigation guide for the healthcare and public health sector to the Cyber Risk Summary for those sectors published on...more

Recommendations for Managing Cybersecurity Threats in the Manufacturing Sector

Foley & Lardner LLP on 9/25/2023

In the hyper-connected era of smart manufacturing, accelerated by “Industry 4.0,” the manufacturing sector is undergoing a digital revolution. By leveraging technologies such as advanced automation, artificial intelligence,...more

Is Your DNA Safe? DNA Sequencing Machines Found to Contain Critical Vulnerabilities

Ankura on 9/13/2023

Key Points: Illumina DNA sequencing machines are vulnerable to exploitation. Both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have published advisories urging all...more

Cybersecurity: What Businesses Need to Know

Butler Snow LLP on 6/30/2023

Cybersecurity is a top concern for all industries, particularly for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. These industries hold some of the most sensitive data and highly valuable technology, making them prime...more

FDA Issues Implementation Guidance on Cybersecurity Requirements for Medical Device Premarket Submissions

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 4/18/2023

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) has issued guidance concerning cybersecurity requirements for certain medical device premarket submissions (the Guidance). The Guidance outlines the implementation of...more

From Heart Monitors to Hack Monitors: Medical Device Cybersecurity

Buchalter on 4/18/2023

ALERT: Recent guidance from the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) clarifies a procedural issue for premarket submissions related to cybersecurity of medical devices and emphasizes the importance of collaboration between...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2022 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 12/23/2022

CYBERSECURITY - Nineteen States Have Banned TikTok on Government-Issued Devices - Governors of numerous states have issued Executive Orders in the past several weeks banning TikTok from government-issued devices and...more

Emerging Threats: Cyber Attacks and Side-Channel Evolution

Polsinelli on 12/15/2022

“Side-Channel” attacks generally refer to a type of criminal cyber attacker activity that exploits vulnerabilities so that the attacker can collect and analyze “leakage” of data from a device, as a means to identify certain...more

Health Care Organizations Warned of Venus Ransomware

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/23/2022

The Health Care Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (IC3) recently released an Analyst’s Note to health care organizations providing information on a new variant of ransomware called Venus (also known as GOODGAME)....more

Joint Advisory Outlines Attacks by Daixin Team

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/4/2022

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released a Joint Advisory last week warning organizations, particularly those in the health care and public health...more

FDA’s New Draft Guidance on Cybersecurity

Gardner Law on 8/17/2022

The FDA has been continuing to work on protecting medical devices from the threats of cybersecurity. In April of this year, the Agency released the latest draft guidance addressing cybersecurity in the medical device...more

Privacy Tip – Health Care Sector Continues to Be Hit with Ransomware

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis on 6/29/2022

According to the 2022 State of Ransomware Report issued recently by Sophos, it surveyed 5,600 IT professionals from 31 countries, including professionals in the health care sector. Those professionals in the health care...more

ECRI Names Cybersecurity Attacks as Top Health Technology Hazard for 2022

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/20/2022

ECRI has been publishing its annual report of health technology hazards for the past 15 years. According to ECRI’s Device Evaluation group, “the Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list identifies the potential sources of danger...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - October 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/4/2019

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the California attorney general's draft regulations on the California Consumer Privacy Act, the CJEU's clarified rulings on the use of cookies, the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2019 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 3/4/2019

In an effort to phase out what many in the security world believe are threats to the cybersecurity posture of governmental agencies and private entities alike, John Quinn, the Chief Information Officer of the State of...more

US-CERT Issues Advisory About Vulnerabilities in Patient Monitors

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/11/2019

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Team (US-CERT) recently issued an advisory outlining three vulnerabilities of Drager Infinity Delta patient monitoring devices....more

Top Cybersecurity Risks for Healthcare Industry

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/7/2019

Clearwater Compliance’s newest CyberIntelligence Insight Bulletin concludes that the top three cybersecurity risks for the healthcare industry, which accounts for 36.8% of reported critical risk incidents include...more

Privacy Tip #148 – Medtronic MyCareLink Heart Monitors Vulnerabilities Identified

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/19/2018

Wearable technology and medical devices have vulnerabilities just like anything else that is digital. ICS-CERT recently issued an advisory about vulnerabilities in Medtronic’s MyCareLink patient heart monitors. ...more

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