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Digital criminals turn toward vaccines to capitalize on COVID-19
Cybercriminals continue to capitalize on the hysteria and worry caused by COVID-19, both in the physical sphere and digital ecosystem, exploiting the significant global unmet …
AI-based diagnostic processes that safeguard data privacy
Digital medicine is opening up entirely new possibilities. For example, it can detect tumors at an early stage. But the effectiveness of new AI algorithms depends on the …
Victims lose millions to healthcare related eCrime
Victim losses from healthcare related eCrime in the U.S. rose by 2,473 percent during 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the nation and world, CrowdStrike reveals. …
Hackers are leveling up and catching healthcare off-guard
Remember when ransomware operators promised last year not to attack hospitals under siege from COVID-19? Unfortunately, that didn’t happen: hospitality, entertainment, …
Healthcare organizations implementing zero trust to tackle cyberattacks
It is widely known that the healthcare industry is a primary target for cyberattack, with increasingly sophisticated and highly-motivated adversaries seeking to exploit both …
Worldwide 5G enterprise market to reach $10.9 billion by 2027
The 5G enterprise market is expected to grow from $2.1 billion in 2021 to $10.9 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 31.8%, ResearchAndMarkets predicts. Sub-6 GHz to hold a major …
Connected medical devices brought security loopholes mainstream
The increasing demand for self-health management, coupled with the digitalization of the modern healthcare ecosystem, translates into a medical connected devices market that …
Bad bot traffic reaching an all-time high over the past year
In 2020, Imperva saw the highest percentage of bad bot traffic (25.6%) since 2014, while traffic from humans fell by 5.7%. More than 40% of all web traffic requests originated …
The parallels of pandemic response and IoT security
While adjusting to life under a pandemic, we’ve become familiar with a host of medical and safety terminology that either didn’t exist before or was of little interest to …
Data breaches and network outages: A real and growing cost for the healthcare industry
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Infoblox report reveals major challenges the healthcare industry faced as IT workers scrambled to secure protected health information …
372% increase in healthcare bot traffic could tamper with booking vaccine dates
Nations around the world are racing to acquire COVID-19 vaccines and assemble digital infrastructure and web applications to enable appointment booking. As they do this, …
Attackers disrupting COVID-19 efforts and critical supply chains
Cyberattacks evolved in 2020 as threat actors sought to profit from the unprecedented socioeconomic, business and political challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, IBM …
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