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Cyber Daily: Artificial Patient Data Can Speed Up Medical Innovation Without Breaching Privacy
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Hello. Large sets of patient health records can be useful to medical researchers. But preserving the privacy of the individuals involved is a problem. Techniques for making the data anonymous have been called into question by data scientists. Now, algorithms can crawl through such data troves and create similar, but fake, patient populations to speed up medical advancements without compromising privacy, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Other news: European Commission investigates tech security incident; SAP customers targeted; Trinity Health discloses breach affecting more than 500,000 individuals; Florida school system battles ransomware.
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Synthetic Patient Profiles
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The Critical Care Coronavirus Unit at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center. The hospital used synthetic data to help it plan the treatment of Covid-19 patients. PHOTO: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS
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Patients of zeros and ones: Medical researchers say large troves of patient information aren't easy to get because privacy laws require the data to be stripped of names, addresses and other identifying details before it can be shared. That's time-consuming.
Synthetic-data technology, though, can unleash algorithms to take details from real-life digital medical records, scramble them and piece them back together to create artificial patient populations that largely mirror the real thing but don’t include any real patients.
Researchers in Israel were happy to get their hands on data about thousands of Covid-19 patients, including a 63-year-old father of two who was admitted to the emergency room with Covid-19 and soon recovered. The man wasn't real but the medical insights derived from studying this information were.
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The European Commission said Tuesday it is monitoring a technology security incident affecting European Union agencies and bodies. PHOTO: YVES HERMAN/REUTERS
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EU security incident: The European Commission said Tuesday it is monitoring a technology security incident affecting European Union agencies and bodies. The commission said it is working with the EU's cybersecurity agency and an unidentified technology vendor whose software is involved, CyberScoop reported. The incident started last week, according to Bloomberg.
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SAP customers urged to patch. Hackers are targeting certain versions of enterprise software from SAP SE that haven't been updated with recent security patches. Successful hacks can "lead to full control of unsecured SAP applications," the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Tuesday.
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SAP worked with cybersecurity vendor Onapsis to identify vulnerabilities and methods used to exploit them. They found more than 300 instances of automated exploitations built to target seven specific vectors related to SAP software.
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The companies said patches have been available for months and, in some cases, years.
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Germany's top cybersecurity agency also warned SAP users to update their systems.
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