Google has been given access to vast swathes of confidential patient information in the UK, raising fears yet again over how NHS managers view and handle data under their control.
In an agreement uncovered by the New Scientist, Google, and its DeepMind artificial intelligence wing have been granted access to current and historical patient data at three London hospitals run by the Royal Free NHS Trust, covering 1.6 million individuals.
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Hackers have stolen login data for more than seven million members of the Minecraft site Lifeboat.
Lifeboat lets members run servers for customized, multiplayer maps for the smartphone edition of Minecraft.
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Cisco’s Warren Mercer and Matthew Molyett are warning that software downloaded from sites run by French firm Tuto4PC likely included trojan backdoors. The Borg’s security arm, Talos, thinks some 12 million machines have been infected.
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There were 337,922 crimes against women reported in India in 2014. That’s over 900 crimes a day, or around one every two minutes.
The country’s government hopes to battle this problem with technology. Officials announced on Monday that all mobile phones sold in the country from January 2017 will need to be kitted out with a panic button feature,
Reuters reports.
Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team works to track down and identify hacking groups that perpetrate attacks. The focus is on the groups that are the most selective about their targets and that work the hardest to stay undetected. The company
wrote today about one particular group that it has named PLATINUM.
In less than two months, online businesses have paid more than $100,000 to scammers who set up a fake distributed denial-of-service gang that has yet to launch a single attack.
British defence contractor BAE Systems has claimed bank hackers in Bangladesh targeted software from Swift, a key part of the global financial system.
According to a report from the Reuters news agency, BAE made the discovery after investigating the theft of $81 million (£56m) from the Bangladesh central bank in February.
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Information on 93 million Mexican voters has been leaked online.
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