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EHR adoption is slow for a reason – Ransomware attack forces three hospitals to cancel operations

Almost 3,000 patient appointments and several operations were canceled at three hospitals after a cyber attack involving a variant of Globe 2 ransomware, confirming once again the importance of the ransomware threat to Healthcare and, consequently, the justified reluctance to moving to EHR entirely. The hospitals impacted in this incident were part of the “Northern […]

FBI Urges Ransomware Victims to Report the Attacks

Healthcare organizations in the US fall under the scope of the “Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act” which enforces the requirement of reporting data breaches to the authorities, as well as take certain measures when such incidents occur. Each incident that has the potential to affect more than 500 persons must […]

Ransomware stories – Petya, the odd one out

What is Petya and how is it different from other ransomware? Petya ransomware is meant to prevent users from accessing their data and force them to pay ransom in order to recover it. However, unlike other types of ransomware, it does not use encryption to compromise the files one by one, which may take time […]