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NAB has identified AI-driven scams and new evolutions of cryptocurrency investment scams as key trends to watch out for in 2025, according to the bank’s experts NAB Executive, Group Investigations …

If last year’s Medibank and Optus data breaches did not put cyber security to the forefront of pharmacists’ minds, the recent attack on electronic prescription exchange, MediSecure, surely has, writes …

Staff education is critical to mitigating against data breaches, a cyber security expert warns  Pharmacy owners are being urged to invest in training their teams to identify phishing emails, following …

Ransomware events dominate headlines, but social engineering attacks are increasingly impacting small business, insurance broker warns  Cyber insurance claims data for the first half of 2024 shows healthcare businesses are …

Electronic prescription exchange “cyber incident” impacts close to 13 million patients Former electronic prescription exchange, MediSecure, has reported that “approximately 12.9 million individuals may have been impacted” when a ransomware …

Cyber security experts are reporting an increase in “priority one” incidents in Australian pharmacies  Community pharmacies are facing a significant increase in serious cyber threats, Andrew McManus, Fred IT Group’s …

Healthcare businesses urged to be vigilant following last week’s large-scale data breach of e-script provider MediSecure  National Cyber Security Coordinator, Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, is warning healthcare providers that while …

E-script provider hit with large-scale ransomware data breach  Cyber security experts say a major data breach affecting customers of script provider MediSecure is a nationally significant incident, which will test …

Pharmacists urged to be on their guard as cyber threat to health industry grows  Data-rich healthcare providers are increasingly becoming the target of cyber criminals, Tessa Bowles, NAB’s security advisory …

Pharmacy owners are being urged to be alert for cyber attacks as part of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Cyber Security Awareness Month campaign  Financial losses can be just the …

The federal budget did contain some welcome initiatives to help the small business community While the attention of most in the pharmacy sector was on medicines policy when Federal Treasurer …

With their systems containing data relating to the healthcare needs of almost every Australian, community pharmacies are far from immune to the threat of cyber-attacks With major data breaches at …