Telcos agree to protect personal alarm users when upgrading to digital

UK phone providers agree new measures to protect vulnerable customers when upgrading phone lines to digital Technology Secretary asks all providers not to force people to switch over until protection in place   Vulnerable households will have better access to emergency services during power outages  The most vulnerable people across England will be better protected following…

Kaspersky finds security vulnerabilities in remote patient monitoring

Kaspersky experts have discovered that the most commonly used protocol for transferring data from wearable devices used for remote patient monitoring contained 33 vulnerabilities, including 18 “critical vulnerabilities” in 2021 alone. This is 10 more critical vulnerabilities than in 2020, and many of them remain unpatched. Some of these vulnerabilities give attackers the potential to intercept…