Nanjing
A Chinese laboratory has developed a high-performance server with an endogenous security design that can effectively resist cyberattacks.
A defense mechanism has been implanted in the server, enabling it to better fend off cyberattacks, according to researchers with Purple Mountain Laboratories based in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing.
The endogenous security design marks a step forward from the standard security pattern of repairing loopholes following cyberattacks and other issues.
Thus far, no equipment or system adopting the endogenous security design has been breached after undergoing numerous tests by domestic institutions and more than 6 million cyberattacks from across the globe.
The new server can support more processor cores and has stronger computing power than common commercial servers in the market, said Wu Jiangxing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of the server’s research and development team.
The server can support domestic and foreign processors such as Sunway, Phytium and ARM. US security authorities warned Wednesday of an “imminent cybercrime threat” to hospitals and healthcare providers, urging them to increase their protection.
An advisory released by the FBI and two other government agencies said they had “credible information” that hackers were targeting the healthcare sector using malware, “often leading to ransomware attacks, data theft, and the disruption of healthcare services.”
The threat comes as US hospitals grapple with rising numbers of coronavirus cases, during a pandemic which has so far killed more than 226,000 people in the country.
Ransomware is a type of malicious software used by cybercriminals to encrypt users’ files until a ransom is paid.
Healthcare institutions have been frequent victims of ransomware for several years in the US and globally.—APP
