A criminal group known as Cl0p stole files from a Barts Health NHS Trust database
Personal patient and staff information has been posted on the dark web after hackers exploited a software vulnerability…
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Dr Zubir Ahmed, health innovation and safety minister (Credit: Department of Health and Social Care)
The UK should leverage its new Health Data Research Service (HDRS) for the “benefit of the Treasury coffers”, said…
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The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has called for UK companies to be prioritised for big NHS technology contracts, rather than US giants such as Microsoft and Palantir.
Ian Murray, minister for digital government and…
Liz Kendall, science secretary (Credit: Alecsandra Dragoi / Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
New laws have been introduced in Parliament to help protect the NHS and other sectors from the threat of cyber…
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Youssof Oskrochi, head of safety at Curistica (left) and Elliott Roy-Highley, medical director at Unbound (right) (Credit: Youssof Oskrochi and Elliott Roy-Highley)
A national study into NHS clinical safety found that more than 10,000…
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Pathology supplier Synnovis is contacting NHS organisations which had data stolen and published online following a major cyber attack last year.
The ransomware attack on 4 June 2024, which led to a patient death, caused widespread…
Dr Mick Quinn, consultant physician and member of BT’s clinical advisory board (Credit: BT)
There is a need for a fundamental shift in how cyber security is perceived, writes Dr Mick Quinn, consultant…
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James Rawlinson, director of health informatics at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, says that 2% of the trust’s devices could not be updated to Windows 11 (Credit: The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust)
Exclusive: NHS…
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Exclusive: An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, which affected more than 1,000 companies and millions of internet users, is believed to have disrupted patient care across several NHS sites.
A digital chief at an acute…
Saif Abed, founding partner and director of cyber security advisory services at The AbedGraham Group (Credit: Jordan Sollof)
A cyber security expert has called for a public inquiry into the Synnovis ransomware attack which…
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