Medieval Diseases Find New Vector In United States: The Homeless

via Anna Gorman writing at The Atlantic (along with Kaiser Health News) are sounding the klaxxon horns in warning of an astonishing fact in the United States: The influx of infectious diseases in the homeless populations of several states. This my fri… Continue reading Medieval Diseases Find New Vector In United States: The Homeless

Russia Flogging Zero-Day Exploits

via Joseph Cox, writing at Motherboard (a Vice property), tells ths unfortunate tale of a Russian company selling zero-day exploit code, targeting hospital software… Today’s MustRead. H/T

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BGU Security Researchers Urge Physicians to Patch Their Systems

via Zaid Shoorbajee – reporting for Cyberscoop, comes a story of security entropy, this time in medical imaging device system patching and an esteemed University’s research targeting those systems. In this case, a research paper from Israel’s Ben-Guri… Continue reading BGU Security Researchers Urge Physicians to Patch Their Systems

Healthcare Systems – Ransomware Targets

Superb accounting of the built-to-fail systems in healthcare, and the predeliction of those same systems towards victimization by ransomware attacks. Via Robert N. Charette writing at the IEEE’s Spectrum Magazine.
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