Data ‘fundamentally broken’ at St George’s
The south west London trust is concerned about patient safety as it outlines issues with unreliable data, fragile IT infrastructure and ransomware attacks.
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Ransomware attack blamed on misconfigured firewall
The virus that shut Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust for four days likely exploited a misconfigured firewall, report finds.
Cyber Security
London trust fends off 19 ransomware attacks in 12 months
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust disclosed more than twice as many ransomware attacks as any other trust but says no data was lost.
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Barts Health NHS Trust hit with “IT attack”
England’s biggest hospital trust has confirmed it is urgently investigating a “IT attack” that has infected its system.
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Big trust overhauls info strategy to meet cyber threat
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says cyber-attacks is the biggest digital threat.
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Exclusive: Health data breaches on the rise
Since April 2015, UK health providers have reported more than 1300 “data security incidents”, including hundreds of cyber-attacks.
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The 12 Insecure Days of Christmas
Digital Health’s cyber security columnist, Davey Winder, undertakes a musical review of some of the hack attacks that were made on the NHS in 2016, and the measures taken to try and stop them.
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Aggressive ransomware blamed for NHS cyber-attack
The Globe2 ransomware virus has been singled out as the culprit in the cyber-attack that took down a northern NHS trust’s systems for four days.
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Northern Lincolnshire cyber-attack likely ransomware
The attack, which knocked out the northern trust’s IT systems for four days, described as a type of malware that encrypted data.
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Davey Winder: ransomware, it’s over here
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust has made headlines for all the wrong reasons, after succumbing to what is probably a ransomware attack. Davey Winder says this should be wake-up call for trusts.
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