MedCity News July 29, 2025
Let’s not add salt to the wound of funding cuts and personnel changes by inadvertently inviting even more ransomware – here’s a closer look at health’s endpoint holes, how federal cuts could ultimately help ransomware hackers, and what ecosystem defenders can do to step up and fight back.
Something alarming occurred in March when the federal government shut down USAID programs and laid off thousands of workers. Even weeks after losing their jobs, some employees found they could still access government devices, systems, and data. Leaders failed to collect equipment and implement proper offboarding, leaving digital backdoors wide open.
Now, as federal health decision-makers plan to cut 10,000 jobs at agencies including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), we can’t...
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