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Technology’s contributions toward safety in healthcare

CyberSecurity Insiders

Technology in healthcare has the potential to make all the difference in terms of safety outcomes. Experts predict that the healthcare industry will face two to three times more cyberattacks than other industries, making cybersecurity an essential aspect of modern medicine. This blog was written by an independent guest blogger.

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FBI Issues Flash Advisory on Conti Ransomware Attacks Impacting Healthcare and First Responder Networks

Hot for Security

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said in a flash announcement that the Conti ransomware group is responsible for at least 16 attacks targeting US healthcare and first responder networks within the last year. The attackers do so by employing throw-away VoIP numbers or via ProtonMail.

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Top Cybersecurity Trends to Watch Out For in 2025

Centraleyes

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. This puts pressure on organizations to secure their systems and develop incident response and disaster recovery strategies to mitigate damage.

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City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. Early on the morning of Wednesday, May 03, 2023, the group started executing the ransomware on the City of Dallas.

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Thousands of RDM refrigeration systems exposed online are at risk

Security Affairs

Thousands of instances of a temperature control system made by Resource Data Management (RDM) are exposed to remote attacks because they were using default passwords and failed in implementing other security measures. In many cases, the web interface can be accessed without authentication.

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Story of the Year: global IT outages and supply chain attacks

SecureList

It is a critical tool in various fields, including system administration, development, and cybersecurity. This information was disseminated, making the vulnerable systems high-visibility targets for threat actors, especially as Fortinet products are commonly found in government, healthcare, and other critical sectors.

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

But it’s coming, in the form of driverless cars, climate-restoring infrastructure and next-gen healthcare technology. The NIST standards serve as a roadmap showing how to more granularly manage access rights for people and systems without unduly burdening users or system administrators.