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US hospitals turn away patients as ransomware strikes

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Only the most critical new patients are currently being admitted to the three hospitals in Alabama Three US hospitals have been forced to temporarily close their doors to "all but the most critical new patients" following a ransomware outbreak. "A criminal is limiting our ability to use our computer systems in exchange for an as-yet unknown payment," said DCH Health System . DCH operates the three affected hospitals in Alabama. One cyber-security expert said the groups using ransomware were becoming increasingly well organised. Computers at the DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Fayette Medical Center and Northport M...
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Danielle Cohn: Are teen influencers being exploited?

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Danielle Cohn at the launch of her music single Lights Camera Action in January 2019 (All photographs used in his article are press pictures and not from her social media accounts) US social media star Danielle Cohn has nearly four million followers on Instagram and 1.4 million on YouTube. She's also one of TikTok's biggest stars, with more than 13 million fans. The young teenager's photographs and their captions are often provocative. She wears bikinis, lingerie and figure-hugging dresses, and her photo locations include bedrooms, pool-sides, and in one case lying beside a waxwork figure of the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, whi...
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