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Our old friend the Investigatory Powers Act says so A radio electronics geek has been caught eavesdropping on NHS medics' pager messages, translating the signals into text while broadcasting them...
Ransomware strain was top customer call-out title in 2018 Kaspersky Lab reckons the number one reason its customers call them for emergency help is because of ransomware – with Wannacry still...
Privacy, what privacy? You can save our lives but you'll never take our data. Oh, damn, you already have Exclusive NHS Inform, Scotland’s answer to the NHS 111 Online health symptom checker...
Not like there's been a major incident recently to kick them into gear or anything A quarter of NHS trusts in the UK responding to a Freedom of Information request have no staff with security...
Bigwigs report lots of progress in the cash-flinging department The UK's Department of Health and Social Care released a progress update this week on the hesitant efforts to deal with shonky NHS IT.…
Despite having electronic record systems in place, 94% of NHS Trusts still use handwritten notes for patient record keeping, according to a report from Parliament Street.
On Monday July 2, Jackie Doyle-Price, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for health, delivered a written statement to the UK parliament. It explained that 150,000 NHS patients who had...
Another day, another UK public health data breach Confidential information on 150,000 NHS patients has been distributed against their wishes for years due to a "coding error" by healthcare...
FoI request reveals extent of attacks on UK healthcare NHS trusts across England experienced more than 1,300 hours of downtime in the last three years, according to results from a Freedom of...
Cyber resiliency of the UK's health service still in disarray Nearly a year has passed since the unprecedented WannaCry cyber attack and the UK's NHS has yet to agree an action plan, according to...