The CyberPHIx Roundup: Industry News & Trends, 6/30/22
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The CyberPHIx Roundup is your quick source for keeping up with the latest cybersecurity news, trends, and industry-leading practices, specifically for the healthcare industry.
In this episode, our host Brian Selfridge highlights the following topics trending in healthcare cybersecurity this week:
- Bombshell report of hospitals sharing PHI with Facebook
- HIPAA compliance analysis for covered entities sending PHI to Facebook
- Legal exposures for sending sensitive information to social media and other website tracking vendors
- Recommendations for healthcare organizations to assess and respond to patient concerns about unauthorized PHI disclosures to Facebook
- HHS issues new guidance for healthcare organizations to improve their cyber posture
- New HIPAA Security Risk Analysis (SRA) tool from OCR
- New OCR guidance and industry feedback related to “recognized security practices” for healthcare organizations (i.e. safe harbors for OCR enforcement)
- HHS issues warning to healthcare entities about dangerous Emotet malware proliferation
- CISA is developing new guidance for helping organizations overcome supply chain risks
- FBI prevents “despicable” Iranian cyber attack on Boston Children’s Hospital
- DOJ shuts down SSNDOB dark web marketplace
- Massive arrests and seizures of social engineering attack infrastructure across 76 countries
- OCR issues guidance on the upcoming expiration of COVID-19 enforcement exemptions for telehealth HIPAA security mandates
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