East Anglian Air Ambulance issues security alert after email breach
The charity has warned people to be vigilant after a cyber-attack on its email system, which resulted in a phishing email being sent out to contacts.
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Cyber security news round up
Our latest cyber security round up looks at hacked patient monitoring systems and FBI fears of an imminent “cash out” attack on ATMs worldwide.
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Davey Winder: How healthy is NHS app security? Not very, I fear.
Experts have been raising concerns about health app security for some time. And, according to our cybersecurity columnist, the new national drive for greater use of apps doesn’t mitigate those worries – it may in fact compound them.
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Open-source snafu leaves patient data exposed
Data pertaining to tens of millions of patients around the world has been jeopardised due to severe security flaws in patient management software OpenEMR.
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NHS trusts sign up to Darktrace threat-hunting software
Four NHS trusts have signed up with cyber security firm Darktrace with a view to automatically identifying possible cyber threats.
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Davey Winder: Does AI have a part to play in securing NHS data?
The potential contribution AI could make to the NHS has been frequently rehearsed – not least by the new health and social care secretary. But, asks our cyber security columnist, is enough attention being paid to the contribution it could make to improving security?
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Cyber security news round-up
Digital Health’s latest news round-up from the cyber security industry includes updates on the 2016 National Lottery hack and June’s Ticketmaster breach.
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FOI: NHS IT systems suffer 55 days’ downtime over three-year period
NHS trusts in England have experienced over 1,300 hours of downtime as a result of IT outages in the last three years, according to an FOI request.
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Minister says opt-out data requests for 150,000 patients missed
The error occurred between March 2015 and June 2018, in GP practices running TPP’s SystmOne though the problem has ‘now been rectified’.
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IBM snaps up £30m cyber security contract from NHS Digital
The three-year partnership will see IBM provide a range of enhanced cyber security services to NHS Digital’s security operations centre.
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