Healthcare

  • 76 iOS Apps, Including Medical and Banking Tools, Are Exposing Data to Hackers

    February 7, 2017

    Seventy-six popular apps in the Apple App Store are vulnerable to silent interception of TLS-protected data due to a poor implementation of the cryptographic protocol. According to researcher Will Strafach, who wrote on Medium, the apps are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Data that is normally protected by Transport Layer Security can now be read or manipulated ...

  • Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet

    February 1, 2017

    Google is blocking access to the entire NHS network, mistaking the amount of traffic it is currently receiving as a cyber attack. An email from an NHS trust’s IT department seen by The Register confirmed that the US search giant has mistaken the current traffic levels for a botnet. The email headed “Google Access” stated: “Google is ...