Halt hackers exploiting the coronavirus
McKnight's Long Term Care News
Diane Evans
Predictably, thieves worldwide are attempting to exploit the coronavirus pandemic to hack into healthcare databases — to the point that Forbes reported a wave of 2,500 malware attacks in less than a day on March 16.
Long-term care providers especially should be on high alert. Why? Because as reported in LeadingAge’s landmark cybersecurity white paper, long-term care faces greater risk in general due to information security that is often “less mature than acute care.” As a result, these less advanced or outdated systems could ...