Security News
A US hospital has decided to pay a ransom of 4 bitcoin to regain access to some 1,400 files locked by attackers. Hancock Health, a regional hospital based in Greenfield, Indiana, said they’d...
Britain on Friday blamed North Korea for a ransomware attack this year that a new report revealed affected a third of English hospitals and could have been prevented with "basic" IT security. read more
New Variant of Crypto-Locking Ransomware Evaded DefensesHospitals in Lanarkshire, Scotland, are continuing to recover following an outbreak involving a new variant of Bitpaymer ransomware....
Official Says No Major Outages Reported YetIn the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Texas hospitals have not yet reported issues involving access to electronic health records and other critical systems,...
The Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security consortium is hoping its new network of labs operated by healthcare entities across the globe for the standardized cyber testing of medical...
But Will U.S. Inadvertently Trim Potential Security Investments?While the U.K. is beefing up funding for hospital cybersecurity, in the U.S., some Congressional leaders are pushing for moves that...
