What we’ve been reading …
Ransomware attack on Synnovis affects service delivery at London hospitals
Synnovis, a pathology partnership between Guy’s and St Thomas’NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospitals NHS Trust, and SYNLAB, is Europe’s largest provider of medical testing and diagnostics. It was hit by a ransomware attack earlier this week, which had cascading service delivery impacts across multiple hospitals in London. This included cancellation of some procedures and operations, and the need to coordinate emergency blood transfusions by pen and paper since the online systems were down. The attack has not yet been resolved.
See Sky News and statement from Synnovis
OpenText purchased Pillr, an MDR platform
OpenText purchased a cloud-native, multi-tenant MDR platform for MSPs. Pillr, originally from Novacoast, allows OpenText to offer customers enhanced threat hunting, monitoring, and response capabilities. OpenText said the acquisition will be combined with its existing Threat Detection offerings which are set up for deployment within organizations for network detection and response.
See press release and OpenText’s Threat Detection and Response products
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
WIRED has a teaser extract from Joseph Cox’s new book, Dark Wire, about how the FBI wiretapped the world. Amazon says the book provides “the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own tech start-up to wiretap the world, shows how cunning both the authorities and drug traffickers have become, with privacy implications for everyone.” Joseph is an investigative journalist; the story borders on the unbelievable, but we guess that’s the idea.
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