Anne Genge, a cybersecurity expert specializing in dental practices, discusses the importance of cybersecurity, particularly how to avoid ransomware and phishing threats and the importance of training for the entire dental team. Newcom Media Inc · Episode 20 – How to protect your dental office from ransomware and phishing Read the audio transcript below: Dr. … Read more
No business is immune to cybercrime, and dental practices are prime targets for ransomware, hacking, and data theft. The sensitivity of patient data, combined with often inadequate cybersecurity measures and untrained staff, makes dentistry an attractive target for cybercriminals. For one dentist, the reality of this danger hit hard when a single click on a … Read more
Let us paint a picture for you: your front-office staff receives a normal looking email from a client. They’re asking about a charge from last month and there’s a link to a picture they claim is a different charge. Your staff member clicks on the link to investigate and three seconds later your computer becomes … Read more
The amount of data generated from humans and computers continues to grow each day, and with it, the number of data breaches. This holds true for the healthcare industry, including dental practices, which is why having a solid data security policy in place is important to protect your clients and your clinic. To put the … Read more
A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack that is disrupting operations for more than 100 dentistry practices, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Multiple sources affected say their IT provider, Englewood, Colo. based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS), was hacked, allowing a potent strain of ransomware known as “Sodinokibi” or “rEvil” to be installed … Read more
When a Toronto dentist learned last week that his office’s computer network had been attacked with ransomware, it felt like a “violation.” “It was terrible,” he said. “My wife was even nervous about sleeping at home.” Staff were locked out of digital files for at least a day and had to take notes on paper. The dentist … Read more
Dental practices across the country found themselves locked out of their patient files after a hacker group infected a pair of software providers with REvil, or Sodinokibi, ransomware. The two companies, The Digital Dental Record and PerCSoft, which created DDS safe to provide medical records retention and backup services to dental offices, ponied up the … Read more
In any type of job, there are elements we hate, fear and try to avoid. For me, that element is dealing with clients who are hit by ransomware. Whether we are able to assist them in decrypting the data or not, it is an extremely stressful and overall nasty experience, to put it mildly. Ransomware, … Read more