Privacy & Security

National Audit Office investigation into the WannaCry attack finds NHS organisations ‘had tended to overestimate’ their readiness to deal with cyber attacks.

Researchers say this virus is significantly more powerful than the Mirai botnet of 2016, which shut down Netflix, Twitter, Spotify and other major websites in October 2016.

While tracking the Equation Group in 2014, the cybersecurity firm detected one malware incident with unknown variants in the U.S.

[East Anglia, UK] Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has appointed the first Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) to help drive use of digital technology and information, improving outcomes for patients.

Move bolsters Imprivata’s authentication and access management platform for healthcare, means more focus on population health management for Caradigm.

The embattled company is hoping to prove its innocence and regain the trust lost by continued reports that the company may have ties to Russia.

The computer network of Pinehurst-based FirstHealth of the Carolinas was shut down by a new form of WannaCry last week.

In response to the influx of data breaches caused by misconfigured cloud databases, the security firm has developed a tool that will let administrators check if their bucket is inadvertently being shared with the public.

Hospitals are uniquely susceptible to security risks when different corporate and IT cultures come together. 

As the number of connected devices is projected to grow to 20 to 50 billion by 2020, the FBI says the threat of DDoS attacks launched by leveraging flaws in IoT devices is not going away anytime soon.