Security News

New Server-Side Ransomware Hitting Hospitals (Threatpost)
2016-03-29 19:41

Hackers are escalating recent attacks against hospitals with new stains of server-side ransomware whose most recent variants are dubbed SamSam and Maktub.

Locky Ransomware Causes ‘Internal State of Emergency’ at Kentucky Hospital (Threatpost)
2016-03-23 13:43

The ransomware Locky took another victim this week: Henderson, Kentucky’s Methodist Hospital.

Hospital Security Fail: Report Outlines Dangerous Shortcomings (Threatpost)
2016-02-29 21:26

In a scathing report that looks at the current state of hospital security, researchers say everything from bedside patient monitoring systems, automated drug dispensing machines to patient records...