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.

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Cyber Security for the Small Medical Practice in Ten Minutes.
In this edition of Hacking Healthcare, we begin with an Idaho National Lab researcher that is shedding light on just how little we know about the threat of ICS (Industrial Control Systems) vulnerabilities.
HHS Cybersecurity Program Office of Information Security - HC3 Intelligence Briefing: Zeppelin Ransomware
The FDA alerted health care providers to cybersecurity vulnerabilities in certain GE Healthcare clinical information central stations and telemetry servers that may allow an attacker to remotely take control of these medical devices and silence, generate and interfere with alarms for connected…
In this edition of Hacking Healthcare, we begin with security researchers calling for a common language for hardware vulnerabilities.
Hackers are launching cyberattacks against SMB ports and IoT devices at a record pace.
In this edition of Hacking Healthcare, we begin with a reminder that increased digitization in healthcare brings many benefits, but also requires contingency planning.
John Riggi, Senior Advisor of Cybersecurity and Risk Advisory Services at the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association discusses the increased risk of cyber-attacks due to the recent escalating friction with Iran and how hospitals and health systems can protect themselves.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response strongly recommends that all health care and public health entities consider patching several new critical vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Windows operating systems as soon as possible.
A U.S.-led airstrike Jan. 3 in Iraq eliminated Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. Although the U.S. government has not identified a specific threat from Iran targeting U.S. health care, the public…