by Gary Pritts | Aug 21, 2014 | General News, HIPAA
Since the initial report of the Community Health Solutions breach, in which attackers hacked into the CHS network to gain personal data of a whopping 4.5 million patients, details of the hack are emerging. According to security firm TrustedSec, owned by David Kennedy,... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Aug 19, 2014 | HIPAA
We’ve blogged previously about a nasty piece of ransomware called CryptoLocker, which gives its victims a difficult choice: Either pay the “ransom” ($400, although other variants may have different fees) to re-gain access to your files or lose your valuable data... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Aug 14, 2014 | HIPAA
An August 5th report from Hold Security, a private security firm in Milwaukee, alleged that a Russian gang of hackers stole the personal data of more than half a billion people. Experts at Hold Security estimate that 420,000 web and FTP sites were accessed by the... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 31, 2014 | HIPAA
A former employee of an East Texas Hospital is facing criminal charges for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly known as HIPAA. On July 3, 2014, the US Department of Justice announced that charges would be filed against... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 27, 2014 | HIPAA
Incidents of cyber-espionage have shown consistent, significant growth and display a wider variety of threat actions than any other pattern discovered in Verizon’s recent 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed of over 63,000 confirmed security... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 26, 2014 | HIPAA
The HIPAA Omnibus/Final Rule, published on January 25, 2013, grandfathered valid HIPAA Business Associate agreements prior to that date until September 22, 2014. That grace period is rapidly coming to an end. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) defines... Read More
Eagle works with clients in healthcare and healthcare business associates to ensure HIPAA Security compliance. We provide a set of policy templates for a variety of business associate types including Cloud Vendors, Third Party Administrators, and Information Technology companies.