Bayamon Medical Center and the Puerto Rico Women and Children's Hospital have suffered a ransomware attack that involved personal information of the hospital's patients.
Massachusetts General Hospital (“MGH”) is notifying approximately 9,900 individuals of a data breach incident involving MGH’s Department of Neurology in connection with some of its research programs.
Many view smart cities as the future of urban living, promising to boost the efficiency and effectiveness of city services and the quality of life for residents while helping cities keep pace with growth and the associated pressure on aging infrastructures.
Outsourcing by companies has been an area of growth for many years, and the trend does not seem to be slowing down. For example, Gartner is forecasting a 17 percent growth in public cloud use worldwide in 2019. Leading the way is infrastructure-as-a-service or (IaaS) with an expected 27 percent growth alone.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has named DeAngela Burns-Wallace as the state's new Chief Information Technology Officer for the Kansas Office of Information Technology Services (OITS).
Federal agencies endured 31,107 cybersecurity incidents in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, a 12-percent decrease over the 35,277 incidents that agencies reported in FY 2017.
Employees of healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada are lacking cybersecurity education and awareness in three main areas including regulation, policy and training.
