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What's the Prescription for Cyber Resilience in Healthcare?

SecureWorld News

billing and electronic payment system operated by Change Healthcare, a big division of UnitedHealth Group, is only the latest, but maybe greatest, example. RELATED: Hospitals Seek Federal Help as Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Disrupts Payments ] The attack has left hundreds, if not thousands, of providers all over the U.S.

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks Connected medical devices, also known as the Internet of Medical Things or IoMT, are revolutionizing healthcare, not only from an operational standpoint but related to patient care. We’ve seen hospital operations halted.

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Seattle startup lands $6.4M to build AI medical model using smartphone and wearable data

GeekWire

Whitehill studied deep learning algorithms for health sensing as part of the UW’s Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) research lab , led UW professor and health tech pioneer Shwetak Patel , who has invented several smartphone-based health applications.

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China says “no thanks” to Intel and AMD on government devices

Dataconomy

These purchasing standards, which were disclosed on December 26, are currently in effect and extend their influence to Microsoft’s Windows operating system and database software from international sources, with a preference for Chinese-made alternatives, as indicated in the report. and China. In October 2023, the U.S.

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Hackers Find New Life from ‘End of Life‘ Technologies

SecureWorld News

Microsoft and other industry professionals strongly recommend upgrading computer systems to an actively supported operating system.". When an operating system reaches its End of Life, it becomes a prime target for hackers. The healthcare industry is already under major stress amid COVID-19.

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Report: Attackers Move Lightning Fast to Capitalize on  Vulnerabilities

SecureWorld News

One-third of high-risk vulnerabilities impacted network devices and web applications. Exploitation of remote services, exploitation of public-facing applications, exploitation for privilege escalation are the top three MITRE ATT&CK tactics. 115 exploited by named threat actors. 20 exploited by ransomwares.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

Listen to EP 12: Hacking Healthcare. I suppose such things happen, but what I remember was her telling her surprise when the system booted up and the Windows 95 splash screen came up … wait, what? Here we were in the 21st century, and the lab was using an operating system that was no longer supported by Microsoft.