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Cyber nasties downed NHS systems for 1,300 hours over 36 months

2018-06-28 15:50

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...

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NHS given a lashing for lack of action plan one year since WannaCry

2018-04-18 08:03

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...

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NHS boss at the centre of WannaCry outbreak warns of more attacks

2018-04-13 18:27

Assume we're going to get hacked next time and plan for it The NHS has learned from last year's WannaCry attack and started putting in place disaster recovery measures that will allow it to...

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Post-WannaCry, UK Promises NHS England a Funding Injection

2017-10-31 16:47

But Solving Cybersecurity Problems Requires More Than Pounds and PenceFollowing the WannaCry outbreak, the British government says it's increased cybersecurity funding for England's national...

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Postmortem Finds NHS 'Could Have Prevented' WannaCry

2017-10-27 11:03

Basic Cybersecurity Defense Every Day Keeps the Ransomware Infections at BayThe National Health Service in England should have been able to block the "unsophisticated" WannaCry ransomware...

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DeepMind's Use of NHS Patient Data Contravenes Data Protection Act (Security Week)

2017-07-04 11:59

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ruled today that the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust contravened the Data Protection Act when it provided the personal data of 1.6 million...

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