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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Stand and deliver: ransomware in healthcare
Cyber security has been rising up the agenda of US health CIOs for some years; but nothing has concentrated their minds like a recent wave of ransomware attacks. Daloni Carlisle look at what the UK should learn from them.
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Cyber security is critical to the future of the NHS
Jon Hoeksma explains why Digital Health News has launched a Cyber Security Hub; and why the NHS needs to wake up to cyber security.
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Davey Winder: hacking healthcare
Security journalist Davey Winder starts a new series of columns on Digital Health’s Cyber Security Hub by asking: what is the truth of hacking healthcare?
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