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Report: 94% of US hospitals suffered data breaches, and 45% had quintuplets

Report: 94% of US hospitals suffered data breaches, and 45% had quintuplets

Competent healthcare providers are great at medical things.

Securing electronic devices or health records? Not so much, the Ponemon Institute finds.

Monday review: the hot 21 stories of the week

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In case you missed anything, here's a list of every story we've written in the last week, for your reviewing pleasure.

Medical device hacking - FDA are told to start taking it seriously

Medical device hacking - FDA are told to start taking it seriously

In a new report, the government takes the FDA to task for ignoring the possibility that insulin pumps and defibrillators are susceptible to malware, unauthorized access and denial of service.

SSCC 70 - Patch Tuesday, insulin pump hacking, Android patching, ChromeOS hacking, archiving our digital past

Sophos Security Chet Chat 41

Vanja Svajcer joins Chester Wisniewski to discuss the papers and demos they attended at last week's Black Hat and DEFCON conferences. Topics covered include Android patch cycles, Fixing the SSL CA problem, insulin pump hacking, Google ChromeOS flaws and archiving our digital past.

BH 2011: Hacking medical devices for fun and insulin

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At this year's Black Hat 2011 conference Jay Radcliffe presented research on the security of consumer medical devices, specifically the hackability of modern insulin pumps. The results are not promising...