Tag: healthcare
Ransomware Attack: French Hospital Reverts to Pen and Paper
Rouen University Hospital Center (CHU) in northern France suffered a major ransomware attack. Nearly 6,000 hospital computers were infected forcing the staff to resort...
7 Times Ransomware Became a Major Healthcare Hazard
By Rudra Srinivas
Cyber-attacks on healthcare organizations has become a trend in the last few years. With sensitive information of their patients with them, healthcare...
Ransomware shuts down hospitals in the U.S. and Australia
Multiple hospitals and health service providers from the U.S. and Australia were forced to shut down some of their operations after being hit by...
Cybersecurity software maker MedCrypt raises $5.3 Million
MedCrypt, a maker of cybersecurity software for medical devices, recently announced that it has raised $5.3 million in a Series A funding round led...
US introduces new bill to increase security of networked medical devices
A bill called the Internet of Medical Things Resilience Partnership Act was introduced on October 5, 2017, by Republican representatives David Trott and Susan...
FDA instructs pacemaker recall due to cyber vulnerabilities
The Food and Drug Administration of the United States of America recently issued an alert stating that a total of 745,000 pacemaker devices by...
Rise of medical IoT devices may pose risk, report says
The healthcare field has incorporated a wide variety of IoT devices into its infrastructure in recent years. Both doctors and nurses use everything from...
