HHS Warns of Potential Cyber Threat to Health Care Entities

Posted on Monday, January 27, 2020 12:37 PM

HHS Office for Civil Rights released the announcement of a cyber threat potentially impacting healthcare and public health (HPH) sector entities:

“The purpose of this bulletin is to notify you of a number of vulnerabilities identified in Microsoft Windows operating systems which if not addressed, pose significant threat to the environment. On January 14, 2020, Microsoft released a software patch to mitigate these vulnerabilities in supported Windows operating systems. Subsequently, The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an Emergency Directive and Activity Alert addressing critical vulnerabilities affecting Windows CryptoAPI and Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server and client. Some of the vulnerabilities could enable a remote attacker to decrypt, modify, or inject data on user connections  DHS has determined that these vulnerabilities pose an unacceptable risk to the Federal enterprise and as a result has issued an emergency directives to all Federal agencies to patch their environment immediately. Due to the seriousness of these vulnerabilities, ASPR CIP strongly recommends that all HPH entities also consider patching their environment as soon as possible. This recommendation is based on the likelihood of the vulnerabilities being weaponized, combined with the widespread use of the affected software across the sector and high potential for a compromise of integrity and confidentiality of information.”


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