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Experts Speculate About Whether the Hack Involved the ScreenConnect Flaw ExploitPharmacies at U.S. military hospitals and clinics worldwide are among the entities affected by the cyberattack on Optum's Change Healthcare this week, which has forced the IT services company to take many of its applications offline. Change Healthcare disconnected its IT systems on Wednesday.

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US healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group announced that its subsidiary Optum suffered a cyberattack by "nation-state" hackers on the Change Healthcare platform, forcing the company to shut down IT systems and various services. [...]

Prescription orders hit after IT supplier Change Healthcare pulls plug on systems IT provider Change Healthcare has confirmed it shut down some of its systems following a cyberattack, disrupting prescription orders and other services at pharmacies across the US.…

CISA, the FBI, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shared a list of defense measures U.S. water utilities should implement to better defend their systems against cyberattacks [...]

Why Are EHRs So Vulnerable and How Can Organizations Get Better at Protecting Them?When a hospital or clinic is hit with a cyberattack, it often seems as if the electronic health record systems just can't win. Even if the EHR system is not the prime target of the attack, it's still frequently taken off line as the organization responds to the incident. What should entities do?

Cyberattacks and threats increasingly are honed in on ICS/OT networks, but security training for operators of these critical infrastructure environments is perilously scarce.