{"id":7280,"date":"2017-07-01T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T13:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2017-07-01T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T13:55:38","slug":"hhs-releases-guidance-on-global-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7280","title":{"rendered":"HHS releases guidance on global ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jessica Kim Cohen for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>HHS\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aha.org\/content\/17\/170628-hhs-cybersecurity-ransomware.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued<\/a>\u00a0an update to its ransomware guidance June 28 following reports about a worldwide ransomware attack \u2014 reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/global-ransomware-petya-hits-merck-pennsylvania-health-system-5-things-to-know.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Petya&#8221; \u2014 that infected computer systems in more than 60 countries June 27. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/hhs-releases-guidance-on-global-ransomware-attack.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jessica Kim Cohen for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) HHS\u00a0issued\u00a0an update to its ransomware guidance June 28 following reports about a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7281,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions\/7281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}