Privacy & Security
Health system websites are being buffeted with bad bots – an increase of 372% over the past six months, according to a new report – and that's making it harder to secure spots for COVID-19 vaccination.
A healthcare cybersecurity expert offers key advice on how best to protect digital assets.
Such attempts are up 580% since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and healthcare is a major target, a new Crowdstrike report shows.
The September 2020 apparent ransomware incident led to a network shutdown throughout the health system's U.S. facilities.
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The same hacker group took a similar tactic in February, posting tens of thousands of stolen patient records to the dark web in an apparent extortion attempt.
With new ransomware tricks and recent attempts at "double extortion" on the black market, there's been "a marked change in adversarial intent," says Caleb Barlow, CEO of CynergisTek.
Its Ransomware Resource Center offers free tools to help healthcare IT pros "better prepare for, respond to, and recover from ransomware attacks."
The health system scans each asset and confirms that targeted vulnerabilities have been patched and can be considered as resolved.
The lawsuit claims that NHS England failed to consider the impact of the deal on patients and the public, according to Sky News.