Scams, hacks and attacks: Hints to help protect your practice from cybercrime

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Scams, hacks and attacks: Hints to help protect your practice from cybercrime

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Dear Aunt MASie

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The pandemic is seen as an opportunity by online criminals to carry out scams and malicious cyber activity

DEAR AUNT MASIE

The pandemic means so many more of our patient interactions are now online. It happened so quickly I’m worried about security. I’ve also heard one of our local practices recently got scammed. Have you any tips on how to reduce our risk?

Virtual worrier, North Shore

When we talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we tend to think about the health or economic impacts. Less well understood are the opportunit