The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Ransomware attacks are serious business for hackers?and Hospitals and health care systems, now in the business of collecting patient data as a side effect of treating physical maladies, struggle to keep that information secure. Cybersecurity researchers at Cylance estimated that the number of ransomware attacks tripled in 2017.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 19, 2018

PHOENIX—Within minutes of each other, two patients were wheeled into the hospital emergency department with emergency haste. Dr. Pugsley suspected a heart attack and called the catheterization lab to have images made of the man’s arteries so he could identify which artery, if any, was blocked. Photo by Seth Rosenblatt/The Parallax. “I

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Australia's Ransomware Action Plan. On October 13, the Australian Government released its Ransomware Action Plan , which identifies initiatives to address the rise of ransomware across key themes of prepare and prevent, respond and recover, as well as disrupt and deter. Ransomware on the Rise.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Ransomware attacks against hospitals: A timeline. How weak IoT gadgets can sicken a hospital’s network. And practitioners and hospitals that don’t comply are penalized. So half of our physicians are thinking about heading for the exits. READ MORE FROM ‘NO PANACEA FOR MEDICAL CYBERSECURITY’.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Monson and Corman emphasized that hackers need only one exploited vulnerability to essentially take down a health care system, as WannaCry did with the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and a ransomware attack did with Los Angeles’ Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. Ransomware attacks against hospitals: A timeline.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And they say it’s high time for the entire health care ecosystem, from clinicians to hospital systems to insurers, to scrub in and get to work on better protecting medical data and devices. Cybercriminals today are intent on holding hospital databases hostage with ransomware, or stealing patient data for resale on the Dark Web.

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