ICT&health September 13, 2021
The report “Playing with Lives: Cyberattacks on Healthcare are Attacks on People” by CyberPeace Institute shows how disruptive cyber incidents, data breaches and disinformation operations cause direct harm to people and undermine trust. Is it still possible to win the war with cybercriminals?
The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed existing weaknesses in the healthcare system, also with regard to cybercrime. Unfortunately, healthcare systems are inadequately responding to data security threats, as exemplified by the most devastating cyberattacks in recent years, WannaCry and NotPetya, among others.
In May 2017, WannaCry attacked more than 600 UK healthcare entities, disrupting access to critical information, putting patients’ health and lives at risk, causing tremendous stress to physicians and administrative staff. Have this global attack on...
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