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A Health District in the State of Washington has made its second data breach announcement of 2022.  Both data breaches at the Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) occurred when employees fell victim to phishing attacks.  On January 24, the district confirmed that personal data may have been compromised when an unauthorized individual compromised an employee’s email account on December 21 2021. An internal investigation concluded that while no documents appeared to have been opened, accessed, or downloaded,…

Lawmakers in the United States have proposed a new bill, which aims to enhance the cybersecurity of America’s healthcare and public health (HPH) sector. The bill, known as the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act (S.3904), was put forward by US senators Jacky Rosen and Bill Cassidy on Thursday, following a White House warning over the increased risk to America of cyber-threats stemming from Russia.  “Health centers save lives and hold a lot of sensitive, personal information,” said Cassidy, “This…

Zero-day exploits doubled last year, according to new research by security analytics and automation provider, Rapid7. On Monday, the company published its latest Vulnerability Intelligence Report, examining the most notable security vulnerabilities and high-impact cyber-attacks of 2021. “We research and publish this report to contextualize the vulnerabilities that introduce serious risk to a wide range of organizations,” said vulnerability research manager and lead Vulnerability Intelligence Report author, Caitlin Condon.  “Our goal is to highlight exploitation trends, explore attacker use cases and…

After launching the Healthcare and Life Sciences Data Cloud Platform just a week ago, Snowflake has announced a Retail Data Cloud aimed at helping retail and consumer goods companies make the most of their data. With Snowflake’s proprietary cloud data warehouse at its heart, the Retail Data Cloud brings together Snowflake’s highly-scalable data warehousing, analytics and compliance tools, with access to third-party data sources and resources through a data marketplace, and various partner consulting services…

The US communications regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has added Kaspersky to a list of entities that it deems to pose a national security threat. The list, first published in March 2021, covers communications equipment and services that pose an “unacceptable risk to national security or to the security and safety of US persons.” In addition to cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, the FCC’s latest update added two Chinese companies to the organizations it considers a security risk: China Telecom…