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New ransomware attack forces hospitals to turn away patients

25

Jan

2018

Allscripts, a provider of electronic health record (EHR) technology to hospitals, was hit by ransomware this week, provoking an outage that affected thousands of physicians’ practices and healthcare providers across the United States.

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Hospital devices left vulnerable, leave patients at risk

10

Feb

2017

A patient lies in a hospital bed waiting for a medical professional to conduct a blood gas analysis. Little does the patient know that his personal information is also undergoing a procedure. The database that stores patient data was found unencrypted, default passwords were used, and the nature of the exploit was basic, according to […]

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Stock-tanking in St. Jude Medical security disclosure might have legs

10

Jan

2017

For better or worse, a security firm’s attempt to cash in on software bugs — by shorting a company’s stock and then publicizing the flaws — might have pioneered a new approach to vulnerability disclosure.

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