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 this edition of Hacking Healthcare, we begin by exploring major proposed changes to the
Domain Name System—an Internet mainstay that maps IP addresses to website names.
In early June 2019, Emotet, an advanced modular banking Trojan, attempted to communicate with 214 command and control (C2) IP addresses for initial instructions, indicating cyber actors recently made modifications or updates to Emotet malware or infrastructure. Immediately following, the Emotet…
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In this edition of Hacking Healthcare, we begin by reviewing the troubling news that 10 hospitals were impacted by ransomware last week. Next, we briefly explore why ransomware, despite constant presence in news headlines, is not as well understood as might be hoped. Finally, we examine a survey…
As long advocated by the AHA, the Department of Health and Human Services today proposed modernizing the Stark Law on physician self-referral and the Anti-kickback Statute.
The AHA yesterday co-hosted a first-of-its-kind regional cybersecurity workshop with the North Carolina Healthcare Association and South Carolina Hospital Association.
The Food and Drug Administration today recommended medical device manufacturers, health care providers and patients take certain actions to reduce the risk that a remote attacker could exploit a set of cybersecurity vulnerabilities to control a medical device or prevent it from functioning.
Among other benefits to the community, mergers can help hospitals deploy more effective safeguards against hackers, writes AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton.
There are numerous benefits to the community that derive from hospital and health system mergers, starting with quality improvements and expanding services.
In this edition of Hacking Healthcare, we explore how the fallout of Facebook’s privacy issues may impact healthcare organizations.