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Dead Peoples Medical Records Found For Sale On Dark Web
Dead Peoples Medical Records Found For Sale On Dark Web The dark web is a pretty scary place. Largely the home of purely illegal material on the internet, it is shocking what you can buy and do on there. We saw literally on the last few days how super secret…
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NHS To Launch Appointment Booking App By 2019
NHS To Introduce Appointment Booking App By The End of 2018 Booking an appointment to see your GP can be a bit of a faff. Not only do you often have to call up at 8 am in the morning, but even then you have to wait on hold for…
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John McAfee Reportedly Victim Of Attempted Assassination
John McAfee Reports He Was Subject To An Attempted Assassination John McAfee is certainly an interesting subject in terms of tech news. He has, however, been a little quiet as of recent. Yes, we very nearly went a whole week without actually writing something about one of our favourite characters…
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PUBG Player Claims Game Helped Him Fend Off Sword Attack
Man Claims PUBG Saved Him From Sword Attack Now, as far as I’m aware, there are no swords in PUBG. I’m fairly certain of that because I haven’t been killed by one with it yet. That being said though a PUBG fan is claiming the game helped him save his…
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Theme Hospital Successor Two Point Has Gameplay Video
Two Point Hospital It’s incredible that after over 20 years, Theme Hospital hasn’t been given a sequel. EA‘s acquisition of Bullfrog is obviously a major factor in that. They do love buying IP’s just to either destroy or ignore them. Two Point Hospital is, however on the way. As a…
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Man Who Received a Double Hand Transplant Writes Letter of Thanks to Doctors
The first person to have a double hand transplant has written a letter of thanks to the doctors who made it possible. Chris King, the recipient of the transplant, is now able to write letters, hold a cup of tea and form a fist. Things he thought would be impossible…
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Smart Stitches Tell You How Much You’ve Healed
When it comes to technology and medicine they go hand in hand. From the concept of being able to heal people from the inside out to giving people the ability to walk again, the latest piece of technology comes in the form of smart stitches. The new stitches come from…
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Hackers Demand Second Ransom From Hospital But Get Nothing
When it comes to ransomware, there are no lengths that people won’t go to get a little bit of money. While ransomware has been around everyday systems for a while, it is becoming an increasingly worrying trend that groups employing ransomware have targeted large organisations or even hospitals. The idea…
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Hospital Pays Bitcoin Ransom to Fix Ransomware
Viruses and malware are issues for the best of us, from forgetting to scan your computer once to being baited in by that interesting link in an email, there are many ways for your system to get infected. Ransomware is one of the nastier pieces of malware, denying you access…
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Hackers Hit Hollywood Hospital With Ransomware
It seems that no system is beyond the reach of hackers out to line their own pockets. For almost an entire week, the Hollywood Presbyterian Memorial Medical Center has been without its computer systems, due to the system being taken down by a hack that is described as ransomware. Without their…
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Should We Replace Doctors With Computers?
A new announcement from Jeremy Hunt is yet another cost cutting attempt at trimming down front line services with the aim of saving cash. The health secretary wants to “remove more medical decisions from the hands of doctors and therefore let computers and protocols decide aspects of care instead” I like…
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FDA Says Stop Using These IV Drips – You Could Be Hacked
The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for checking and maintaining people’s safety in regards to (surprise surprise) the food and drugs they are given. This time they’ve had to go a step further and “encourage” hospitals to replace a piece of tech from their supply lists and floors before…
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Bacteria Free BlackBerry Arriving At Hospital?
Before Apple and Samsung became kings of the smartphone market, BlackBerry used to be ubiquitous for businesses who desired a convenient way of communicating. But over recent times Blackberry has fallen somewhat from the tree? Bush possibly? Anyway from plummeting sales to whatever the hell Alicia Keys role was, it’s…
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UK’s NHS Breaches Data 6 Times a Day, Including on Social Media
Privacy pressure group Big Brother Watch has conducted research revealing a startling number of sensitive data breaches by the UK’s National Health Service. On average, data including sensitive medical records, is breached 6 times a day. They discovered that there had been 7,255 reported breaches in the past 3 years.…
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U.S. Hospital Target of Biggest Heartbleed Bug Exploit Yet
It has been a while since the Heartbleed bug got publicly know and went trough every media type, about four months and you would expect critical systems to be patched by now. After all, pretty much every manufacturer and software developer rushed out with a fix to their system. It…
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