January 28, 2022

Coronavirus SMS scam offers home PCR testing devices – don’t fall for it!

Free home PCR devices would be technological marvels, and really useful, too. But there aren't any...

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February 20, 2020

Nearly half of hospital Windows systems still vulnerable to RDP bugs

Almost half of connected hospital devices are still exposed to the wormable BlueKeep Windows flaw nearly a year after it was announced, according to a report released this week.

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December 07, 2018

Hacker-besieged DNA data tucked away under military care

Genomics England announced it's sequenced 100K Brits' genomes... and then had to store them in a military base after multiple hacking attacks.

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February 01, 2018

Hospital MRI and CT scanners at risk of cyberattack

A recent study has concluded that Medical Imaging Devices such as CT and MRI scanners have a number of vulnerabilities that make them attractive targets for cyberattacks.

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August 22, 2017

News in brief: AWS buckets leak more data; NHS hit by hacker; ‘Mr Smith’ may publish GoT episodes

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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July 06, 2017

Why doctors using SnapChat to send scans is not the problem

It's not so much the app the doctors are using, it's that they're using it to sidestep the official channels

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July 04, 2017

Health trust rapped on illegal use of patient data in Google AI deal

A deal between a healthcare trust and Google's DeepMind project to be much smarter about diagnosis and prevention could have been a good thing - so what went wrong?

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June 14, 2017

Is it time for cash for medical “Clunkers”?

What will it take to improve cybersecurity in the problem-plagued healthcare industry?

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May 16, 2017

Concern at how patient data was shared with Google

Passing the patient records to the Google-owned company to help it build a health app as 'inappropriate', warns watchdog

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