This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for March 12, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston.
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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for March 12th 2018…with your host…Tom Eston
In this week’s episode: Malicious Healthcare Workers, New Attacks on Mobile Networks, and Facebook Messenger for Kids
Hi everyone, I’m Tom Eston, Co-host of the Shared Security podcast. Welcome to the Shared Security Weekly Blaze where we update you on the top 3 security and privacy topics from the week. These weekly podcasts are published every Monday and are 15 minutes or less quickly giving you “news that you can use”.
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If you go to your doctor or to the hospital, have you ever wondered if your private healthcare information is being properly protected? Well this past week there were two reports released showing that its own workforce is the biggest cybersecurity problem for the healthcare industry. According to the 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report released by Verizon, 58% of data breach incidents involved insiders. Most of the breaches noted by Verizon were because of corrupt healthcare workers stealing data to commit tax fraud, opening lines of credit from patient data or by looking up personal records of celebrities and family members. Another report, based on a survey of healthcare employees from consulting firm Accenture, showed that 18% of respondents were willing to sell confidential patient data for as little as $500 or $1,000. This data could include selling your login credentials, putting your data on portable drives to be sold and installing malware on internal systems to capture confidential patient data.
I don’t know about you but reports and surveys like these are very concerning considering the fragile state of healthcare, especially here in the US. Whether it’s failed security policy oversight or lack of security controls, healthcare remains one of the number one sources for criminals to gain access to your private information for medical identity theft. This is despite having healthcare laws such as HIPAA which are supposed to enforce good security practices within the industry. Like other types of fraud we’ve talked about on the show, you need to take steps to defend against someone using your information to commit fraud or identity theft. Unfortunately, we can’t rely on others like the healthcare industry or the government to properly protect our information.
Much of the same advice we’ve given to protect against fraud, like putting a freeze on your credit and creating strong and unique passwords, also apply to the issues we’re seeing with healthcare data breaches. Some other tips specific to medical identity theft is to keep accurate records of your medical history, always review your medical statements to ensure they are accurate, be aware of fake or real calls from medical debt collectors and physically shred any healthcare related documentation containing personal information. Check out our show notes for a great guide from the Federal Tra
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