Your ads will be inserted here byEasy Plugin for AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita was hit by ransomeware last week. When they paid up, they didn’t get full access back to their files. The…
Hospitals under pressure to digitize everything as hacker’s make it their biggest new target
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums into recruitment hotbeds and propaganda mechanisms. We need a security apparatus in the digital space to address this threat. Hackers are the face of this digital army.” The actor said he is bringing his whole team including scriptwriters of the show to observe and interact with the ethical hacker community. (Also Read: Tabu Has Shown Interest in 24, Says Director ) “From November 22, I will start shooting for 24. It will go on air in 2016. When an actor prepares for a role, we often start to live like the character. Some call it method acting. We meet real life people like the character and try to understand their nuances, their life,” he said. As per the summit’s website, speakers will share details of the espionage mission as well as hold sessions on hacking of cellular networks, medical devices in hospitals, using technical loopholes in them. The consortium claims to have discovered cyber espionage operation under which phones of Indian Army personnel, who had downloaded some mobile application related to news, had been compromised by hackers based in Pakistan. IIC CEO Jiten Jain has said that the findings were handed over to security agencies who promptly acted and sanitised the infected handset early this year.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums…
FDA alert advises hospitals and med centers stop using hacker-vulnerable networked IV pumps
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert advising hospitals, nursing homes, and other medical care centers to stop using the Symbiq Infusion System of intravenous pumps, which deliver IV medications with dosages programmed over a hospital’s wireless network. As…
Patients Sue UCLA Hospitals for Hack Attack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans UCLA Health Systems’ failure to encrypt patients’ medical and financial information exposed 4.5 million of them to a hacker attack, which UCLA knew six months before it told them, a patient claims in a federal class action. Michael Allen claims UCLA…
Hospitals At Risk for Cyber Attacks
Hackers stole personal information from patients at a Virginia hospital and now that hospital is offering patients free credit monitoring. Recently, a former hospital employee from Chesapeake was charged with stealing credit card information from cancer patients. The transition from […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Doctors shouldn’t buddy up with patients on Facebook or Twitter, hospitals warn
Hospitals, worried about lack of professionalism and inadvertent leaking of confidential data, are warning doctors not to set up relationships with patients on Facebook and Twitter. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
Black Friday: The hospital’s last stand.
Chapter 3: The hospital’s last stand. Kylie and Elliott rejoined Alexander and Seymore in the waiting room. “I’ll take over . . . View full post on computer virus prison – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Worm forces hospitals to turn away patients
Gwinnett Hospital System Inc. By Matt LiebowitzSecurityNewsDaily A damaging, fast-spreading computer bug forced an Atlanta-area hospital system to shut its doors for nearly three days last week and divert ambulances to other facilities. Gwinnett Medical Center’s two campuses, in Lawrenceville and Duluth, Ga., were forced to declare “total diversion” status…
Computer worm forces hospitals to turn away patients
Gwinnett Hospital System Inc. By Matt LiebowitzSecurityNewsDaily A damaging, fast-spreading computer bug forced an Atlanta-area hospital system to shut its doors for nearly three days last week and divert ambulances to other facilities. Gwinnett Medical Center’s two campuses, in Lawrenceville and Duluth, Ga., were forced to declare “total diversion” status…
