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Mobile health devices: Kaspersky discovered 33 security vulnerabilities
Mobile health devices: Kaspersky discovered 33 security vulnerabilities

Kaspersky experts last year found 33 vulnerabilities in the most commonly used protocol for transmission of mobile health devices used for remote patient monitoring. Qualcomm Snapdragon also affected. 18 vulnerabilities are critical vulnerabilities. That's 10 more than in 2020, many of them still unresolved. Some of these vulnerabilities allow attackers to intercept data being sent online from the device. Increase in vulnerabilities in 2021 The ongoing pandemic has led to rapid digitization of the healthcare sector. There…

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Telemedicine: 25 percent of data is compromised

Kaspersky study: More than a third of European healthcare service providers (36 percent) confirm that their medical staff do not know exactly how patient data is protected. Almost a quarter of patient data at telemedicine sessions is compromised. 36 percent of the workforce uses apps that are not specifically designed for telemedicine. As a global Kaspersky study shows, 24 percent of European healthcare providers have already experienced cases in which personal patient data has been compromised by their employees during remote diagnostics. In addition, almost over a third of providers (36 percent) believe their medical staff are unsure what…

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