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Hospital robot system gets five critical security holes patched

April 12 2022 By Paul Ducklin in healthcare, Security, Vulnerability

Fortunately, we're not talking about a robot revolution, or about hospital AI run amuck. But these bugs could lead to ransomware, or worse...

Are Fake COVID Testing Sites Harvesting Data?

January 19 2022 By Bruce Schneier in COVID-19, healthcare, Security

Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a bunch of writing about what seems to be fake COVID-19 testing sites. They take your name and info, and do a...

A Death Due to Ransomware

October 1 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Cybercrime, healthcare, Ransomware, Security

The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a baby’s death at an Alabama hospital in 2019, which they argue was a direct result of the ransomware attack the...

Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services Hack

September 21 2021 By Bruce Schneier in healthcare, Security

Apparently, a nation-state hacked Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services. Not sure why Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services is of any interest to a nation-state, but that’s...

Naked Security Live – How to calculate important things using a computer

February 22 2021 By Paul Ducklin in healthcare, Security

Here's the latest Naked Security Live talk - watch now!

Finnish Data Theft and Extortion

December 10 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Cybercrime, cybersecurity, healthcare, Security

The Finnish psychotherapy clinic Vastaamo was the victim of a data breach and theft. The criminals tried extorting money from the clinic. When that failed, they started extorting money...

Limited Shifts in the Cyber Threat Landscape Driven by COVID-19

April 8 2020 By Daniel Pany in healthcare, Homepage Carousel, information operations, Latest Blog Posts, Phishing, Sandra Joyce, Security, Social Engineering, Threat Research

Though COVID-19 has had enormous effects on our society and economy, its effects on the cyber threat landscape remain limited. For the most part, the same actors...

Limited Shifts in the Cyber Threat Landscape Driven by COVID-19

April 8 2020 By Daniel Pany in healthcare, Homepage Carousel, information operations, Latest Blog Posts, Phishing, Sandra Joyce, Security, Social Engineering, Threat Research

Though COVID-19 has had enormous effects on our society and economy, its effects on the cyber threat landscape remain limited. For the most part, the same actors...