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Read about trends in cyberattacks in the Healthcare and Medical industry, as well as our recommendations for helping to secure your healthcare organization.

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Hive ransomware impacts California non-profit health organisation

April 1, 2022 0 Comments data exfiltration, health, hive, hive ransomware, medical, Ransomware

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:33:43 +0000

We look at a developing story where Hive ransomware has heavily impacted a non-profit healthcare organisation.

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US-CERT warns of critical flaws in Medtronic equipment

November 13, 2019 0 Comments insulin pumps, medical, medtronic, valleylab, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 12:06:05 +0000

Medtronic’s latest problem is in their Valleylab electrosurgical generators used by surgeons things like cauterisation during operations.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/2SZk6nTN7A0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Researchers find 737 million medical images exposed on the internet

September 19, 2019 0 Comments data leak, data loss, dicom, GDPR, greenbone networks, healthcare, hipaa, medical, medical data, pacs, Privacy, security threats, unsecured database

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:45:21 +0000

Of the 2,300 archiving systems looked at, 590 were accessible from the internet, exposing 24 million medical records from 52 countries.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/0XCH8Caa0mg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>