North Korea pulls off largest-ever theft in digital asset history

The 21 February heist of Bybit, a Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange removed a staggering $1.46 billion in cryptoassets according to initial reports. In fact, this incident is likely the biggest known financial theft of all time. Bybit is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, with over 50 million registered users worldwide as per a September 2024 report. Bybit disclosed that over 400,000 Ethereum and staked...

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2025 Proposed HIPAA Security Rule Changes

Much Needed Update to HIPAA coming in 2025. A long overdue update the HIPAA Security Rule, last updated in 2013, is currently being drafted. Many things have changed in digital healthcare since the rules’ last update and today, the healthcare industry is near wholly reliant upon technology for the delivery of services to patients. This includes a rapid expansion of medical devices and other IoT systems, the widespread use of AI and in particular...

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2025 Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions

Twenty Twenty-Five As someone who has been evangelizing the need for improved healthcare cybersecurity for decades, every year I am hopeful that the new year will be better for healthcare security - that there will be fewer breaches, less supply chain attacks, fewer denial-of-service attempts, and less ransomware attacks. However, statistics don’t lie, nor do trends, so it’s unlikely that I will get my wish in 2025. The Global Cybersecurity...

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Healthcare Cybersecurity Year in Review

Twenty Twenty-Four will go down in history as another watershed year in healthcare cybersecurity. With 386 reported healthcare cyberattacks by the beginning of October, this year is on target to surpass even 2023, which was in itself, an especially bad year for healthcare cybersecurity attacks and breaches.These projections are supported by the 2024 Ponemon Healthcare Cybersecurity Report, which found that 92% of organizations experienced a cyberattack...

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Experts address AI, global security threats, & solutions to cybercrimes

The annual cost of cybercrime is expected to reach $10 trillion dollars next year. To put that figure into context, in terms of GDP it would be the third biggest economy in the world after the US and China. From deep-fakes and disinformation to hacks and attacks on infrastructure, healthcare and security networks, cybercrime is becoming the number one challenge for law enforcement and intelligence agencies. And artificial intelligence is already...

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UK Ambulance Service

The UK Ambulance Service is the latest target of Russian hackers according to a recent report.Like much of the NHS and other critical infrastructure service providers across the country, Russian FSB, SVR, and GRU spies along with criminal proxies have been engaged in a coordinated campaign to infiltrate and reconnoiter large parts of the UK’s critical infrastructure services. This includes the Civil Service, the Ministry of Defence, and many of their...

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The Pulse of Security

“Healthcare is increasingly reliant upon technology, whether interconnected systems or online platforms to deliver vital services, but with that reliance comes growing cyber threats. In fact, recent research from Check Point Software shows that the Healthcare Sector experienced an average of around 2,000 cyber-attacks per week in the second quarter of this year, increasing by 15 percent compared to last year. That puts healthcare in third place...

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Rural Healthcare and the Catch22 of Cybersecurity

Rural America and Urban America can seem like two different worlds. Just look at the political map, or the disparity in wealth between ‘country folks’ and ‘city slickers’. Perhaps the most alarming difference, however, is the availability of basic healthcare services. If you live in rural America, you could be 2- or 3-hours’ drive away from the closest renal dialysis center, or radiotherapy and chemotherapy clinic. You may also be several hours...

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Isn't it about time we secured BGP?

Border Gateway Protocol or ‘BGP’ as it is more often referred to as, has been a staple of internet routing since the heady days of 1989 when TCP was finally getting into its stride, and the internet as we know it, was in its infancy. BGP enables routers to determine the most efficient paths for data to travel across networks to ensure scalability and efficiency. The protocol allows network backbone providers to announce routes across networks and...

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The Growing Rural Healthcare Cybersecurity Crisis

Rural America and Urban America can seem like two different worlds. Just look at the political map, or the disparity in wealth between ‘country folks’ and ‘city slickers’. Perhaps the most alarming difference, however, is the availability of basic healthcare services. If you live in rural America, you could be 2- or 3-hours’ drive away from the closest renal dialysis center, or radiotherapy and chemotherapy clinic. You may also be several...

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