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Domain Skulduggery, Part 2

The growing trend of cyber criminals using domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to control their bot armies represents a significant challenge to healthcare IT. Defending against the threat requires vigilant deployment of self-protection techniques.

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Responding to an Emerging Threat

Methodist Hospital of Southern California is an early pioneer in cybersecurity, with an effective protocol for reducing the risk to patient safety from cyberattacks. Its achievement has been recognized with ECRI’s Health Devices Achievement Award.

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Domain Skulduggery, Part 1

In the first of a two-part series about how cyber criminals are exploiting the domain name system (DNS) with techniques like domain tasting and domain generating algorithms, Jeff Kabachinski outlines the basics of domains, the DNS, and DNS servers.

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