Our job as your trusted IT and Healthcare technology company is to help our clients comply with HIPAA regulations. We also strive to educate our clients and their employees on the importance of protecting patient privacy. We do this by using examples of HIPAA violations to help our clients understand some of the concepts of...
The University of California, Irvine Student Health Center has been the victim of a HIPAA breach. Nearly 2,000 pieces of PHI (protected health information), including financial data, were stolen via a keylogger attack. The keylogger collected this information for over a period of a month before being discovered. How This Happened. The keylogger was residing...
EBay’s parent company E-commerce, is asking all their users to change their passwords after a cyber attack compromised their database. So far they haven’t reported any stolen financial data, but to be certain you aren’t affected, it’s best to change your password. E-commerce also owns PayPal, however their data is stored on a separate network,...
When looking for a victim, cyber criminals will go after small businesses that lack security controls. Hackers don’t want to go after the big companies that have layers of security in place — They want the easy targets. Unfortunately if you don’t have the proper security solutions in place, your small business is an easy...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proven that they’re serious about HIPAA infractions. They recently imposed the largest monetary fines for HIPAA noncompliance on two well-known New York City institutions — New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center. They will have to pay $4.8 million in fines because the electronic protected...
When you work with Veltec Networks as your trusted cybersecurity team, cybersecurity breaches, ransomware, and other security concerns will become distant memories.
We ensure:
When you work with Veltec Networks as your trusted cybersecurity team, cybersecurity breaches, ransomware, and other security concerns will become distant memories.
We ensure: