WannaCry Cybersecurity Alert Shows Medtech Software Must Look Beyond Quick Fixes

Preventing cyberattacks on medical technology occupies the waking thoughts of device software manufacturers, but the global ransomware episode in mid-May shows that companies must also be alive to threat posed to their provider customers.

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The WannaCry (WanaCrypt0r 2.0, WCry) ransomware attack that affected over 200,000 systems globally on May 12 locked users out of their IT systems and demanded a relatively small bitcoin ransom to let them resume access.

Most of the headlines focused on the relatively large effect on systems used by the NHS England, where 40 trusts...

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