Cybersecurity
Cyber Threat Intelligence, Alerts and Reports
As part of the AHA’s commitment to helping hospitals and health systems prepare for and prevent cyber threats, we have gathered the latest government cyber threat intelligence and alerts and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) reports.
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Cybersecurity & Risk Advisory
Learn how AHA can help hospitals and health systems prepare for and mitigate cyber threats through the expertise of John Riggi, AHA’s National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk.
In January 2021, a relatively small number of vulnerabilities in common information systems relevant to the healthcare sector have been disclosed to the public however the ones that were released warrant attention.
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The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response released a comprehensive and valuable resource to help hospitals and health systems effectively care for patients and maintain business practices and readiness should a cybersecurity incident…
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In this issue Hacking Healthcare takes another look at ransomware. Specifically, we analyze trends that emerged throughout the past year, data from the last quarter of 2020 and what it tells us about where things are headed, and why ransomware becoming less lucrative for cyber criminals may…
On 5 February 2021, unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at a US water treatment plant. The cyber actors likely accessed the system by exploiting cyber security weaknesses including poor password security, and an…
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center and AHA will host a Feb. 10 panel discussion on best practices to combat unlawful robocalls to hospitals.
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On January 31, 2021, a third-party threat research team from the NCC Group informed the SonicWall Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) about a zero-day vulnerability affecting the Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series product. Subsequently, the SonicWall security and engineering teams…
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