- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 30th, 2016
Brazilian Hospitals Infected with Ransomware After RDP Brute-Force Attacks
Kaspersky researchers can decrypt this new Xpan ransomware
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 19th, 2016
Anonymous Hacks Four Italian Healthcare Organizations
Hackers are protesting Italy's policies on ADHD treatments
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 16th, 2016
One Single Ransomware Gang Made over $121 Million
The gang still holds $94 million in its Bitcoin wallets
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 8th, 2016
Health Clinic Sued Three Days After Announcing Massive Security Breach
Some people don't like to wait when filing lawsuits
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 1st, 2016
Hospitals Targeted in New Wave of Medjack Attacks
Hacking healthcare systems by proxy (medical devices)
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 27th, 2016
Hacker Puts 9.3 Million Records Up for Sale from Healthcare Insurance Company
Hacker says he used an RDP zero-day to hack the company
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 27th, 2016
Hacker Selling 651,894 Patient Records on the Dark Web
The hacker is asking over $700,000 for the whole data
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 29th, 2016
FBI Raids Home of Researcher Who Alerted Company of Publicly Exposed Data
FBI brings guns to the house of a security researcher with three kids, all because of a publicly available FTP server
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 19th, 2016
Anonymous Leaks Healthcare Records from 33 Turkish Hospitals
Hackers claim the data dump is payback for the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center ransomware incident
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 3rd, 2016
Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because of Antivirus Scan
Medical procedure continued without harm to the patient
- Google News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 30th, 2016
Google Files Patent Application for Intraocular Smart Lens
The eye lens includes electronic communication components
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 22nd, 2016
Windows XP, IE, and Flash Usage Blamed for Poor Security of Healthcare Sector
And let's not forget about Java, shall we!
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 5th, 2016
Ransomware Epidemic Makes Two New Victims, Hospitals in California and Indiana
Ransomware infections are out of control, highly-efficient against hospitals, the bigger the hospital, the better
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 31st, 2016
Outdated Medical Care System Sports a Whopping 1,418 Security Bugs
The device was running on Windows XP, was considered EOL
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 25th, 2016
The Perfect Storm: Breach in a Payments Processor for the Healthcare Industry
Researcher finds flaws in third-party healthcare payments processor that reveals the sad state of healthcare security
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 25th, 2016
Hospitals Are as Easy to Hack as You'd Think They Are
ISE researchers find a trove of security lapses at hospitals and healthcare clinics across the US. Nobody is surprised.
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 27th, 2016
Health Insurer Loses Six Hard Drives Containing Details of 950,000 Patients
Six HDDs go missing from a Centene laboratory