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ransomware
1 February 2017

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
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imperial college
20 January 2017

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
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barts health
13 January 2017

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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12 January 2017

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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5 January 2017

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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22 December 2016

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
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5 December 2016

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
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2 December 2016

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
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15 November 2016

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
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11 May 2016

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
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