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Cyber security underpins the safe and secure delivery of digital health services. Modern healthcare critically depends on reliable, effective digital infrastructure, playing a key contribution to productivity and efficiency as well as patient safety.
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.
Digital Health’s Cyber Security Summit series is returning on 24 January, 2017, hosted at the Royal College of Physicians. The January summit will cover cyber
A NHSmail account has been hijacked and used to launch a phishing attack to extract sensitive details from other NHS staff.
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.
The attack, which knocked out the northern trust’s IT systems for four days, described as a type of malware that encrypted data.
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.
