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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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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UK and Netherlands-based cyber security and compliance firm Naq has raised €6 million (£5.1m) to help health technology companies meet NHS standards.
The startup, which emerged from the government’s National Cyber Security Centre flagship cyber…
NHS England is investigating a cyber incident at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
A spokesperson for UCLH told Digital Health News that a software product…
The IT systems at Medway Community Healthcare have not yet been restored following a suspected cyber attack, Digital Health News has learned.
Medway announced on 2 December 2024 that an investigation was ongoing and it…
Medway Community Healthcare (MCH) has announced that it has disconnected its IT systems to “protect patient and staff data” after detecting some “suspicious activity”.
In a statement on its website, published on 5 December 2024,…
Mike Fell, executive director of national cyber security operations at NHS England (Image provided by Mike Fell)
Before his role as executive director of national cyber security operations at NHS England, Mike Fell…
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An updated cyber resilience framework for health and social care organisations has been announced by the National Data Guardian (NDG) and NHS England.
The change to how organisations measure and self-report their data security capabilities…
More than 1,134 elective procedures and 2,194 outpatient appointments have been postponed at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust since a cyber attack on 3 June…
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Cyber criminals have published patient data online which they claim was stolen as part of an attack on Synnovis, NHS England has confirmed. The ransomware attack by Russian cyber criminal group Qilin, which took place…
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