Zoll Medical Corp. said a cyberattack may have exposed protected health information of current and former employees, dependants and beneficiaries. Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based Zoll — an Asahi Kasei company — characterized the incident as a “sophisticated email phishing attack” that targeted a Zoll employee. Phishing attacks use seemingly trustworthy communications via emails, text messages or even […]
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Bio-Rad recovering from ransomware attack
Bio-Rad Laboratories (NYSE:BIO) said late Friday afternoon that it is making good progress recovering from a ransomware attack that was detected on the company’s network on December 5. The company did not reveal the hacker’s demands, if any. Once the malicious software was detected, Bio-Rad immediately took certain systems offline, the company said in a […]
BD drug-dispensing cabinets vulnerable to cyberattack
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said yesterday that certain Becton Dickinson Pyxis medication-dispensing cabinets are vulnerable to unauthorized users within a local hospital network. The Franklin Lakes, N.J.-based company said it reported the vulnerability to federal officials. The weakness would have allowed someone with the expired credentials to access patient data and medications. The […]