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12 January 2017

Big trust overhauls info strategy to meet cyber threat

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says cyber-attacks is the biggest digital threat.
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5 January 2017

Exclusive: Health data breaches on the rise

Since April 2015, UK health providers have reported more than 1300 “data security incidents”, including hundreds of cyber-attacks.
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22 December 2016

The 12 Insecure Days of Christmas

Digital Health’s cyber security columnist, Davey Winder, undertakes a musical review of some of the hack attacks that were made
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5 December 2016

Aggressive ransomware blamed for NHS cyber-attack

The Globe2 ransomware virus has been singled out as the culprit in the cyber-attack that took down a northern NHS
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2 December 2016

Northern Lincolnshire cyber-attack likely ransomware

The attack, which knocked out the northern trust's IT systems for four days, described as a type of malware that
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15 November 2016

Davey Winder: ransomware, it’s over here

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust has made headlines for all the wrong reasons, after succumbing to what is
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11 May 2016

Stand and deliver: ransomware in healthcare

Cyber security has been rising up the agenda of US health CIOs for some years; but nothing has concentrated their
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5 May 2016

Cyber security is critical to the future of the NHS

Jon Hoeksma explains why Digital Health News has launched a Cyber Security Hub; and why the NHS needs to wake
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3 May 2016

Davey Winder: hacking healthcare

Security journalist Davey Winder starts a new series of columns on Digital Health’s Cyber Security Hub by asking: what is
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