medical data

Cardiac patients’ medical data stolen and held to ransom

| | Data breaches, iRhythm, medical data, SBN News, social engineering
Cardiac monitoring provider iRhythm has been hit by a data theft followed by an extortion attempt ...
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Insecure Medical Devices — Illumina DNA Sequencer Illuminates Risks

| | biomedical, biomedical devices, commercial iot security, DNA, DNA Data, Family Tree DNA, Hackable Medical Devices, industrial internet of things, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, internetof things, internetofthings, internte-of-things, Intranet of Things, iot, medical, medical data, medical device, medical device security, Medical Devices, Medical devices cyber security, medical equipment, Ransomware, Ransomware of Things, SB Blogwatch, secure boot
IEI-IEI, Oh: Running an obsolete OS, on obsolete hardware, configured with obsolete settings ...
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Healthcare Providers Need to Increase Budgets for Cybersecurity

| | data protection, Data Security, Featured Articles, healthcare, medical data, security spending
The past few years have emphasized just how important cybersecurity is. As cybercrime reached record heights and more companies went digital, industries realized their current security efforts fell short. Healthcare is a ...
The State of Security
Former Medical Transcriptionist Accused of Trying to Extort Toronto Hospital Using Stolen Patient Data

Former Medical Transcriptionist Accused of Trying to Extort Toronto Hospital Using Stolen Patient Data

| | Data breach, Digital Privacy, extortion, Industry News, medical data, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto
Personal information of roughly 150 patients of Toronto-based St. Michael’s Hospital has been stolen in a data breach, allegedly by a former third-party employee accused of taking them while on duty. According ...
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Human Error, Not Ransomware, Health Care’s Biggest Security Threat

| | byod, data smuggling, DNS tunnels, healthcare it, iot, medical data, Privacy, smash and grab
Making security a priority is imperative to reduce error in handing healthcare data The healthcare industry is a favorite target for cybercriminals, and it’s been that way since I began writing about ...
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