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Emergency Medical Services Could Require Overhaul to Meet Modern Realities

(TNS) - The North Dakota emergency medical services system may need to undergo a structural shift to cope with changes to the medical and cultural landscape, experts and stakeholders said Tuesday during a meeting in Dickinson.

Tom Nehring, director of the division of EMS and trauma at the North Dakota Department of Health, said the current model for EMS has been in place for a little more than 40 years, and said volunteers have always been the “backbone” of the state’s rural delivery system.

That model, he continued, is “not a sustainable mode either near-term or far-term.”

“We’re already starting to see failures,” Nehring said. “We are facing a growing, potentially dangerous, crisis.”

Full article: http://www.emergencymgmt.com/disaster/Emergency-medical-services-could-require-overhaul-to-meet-modern-realities.html

From high seas to high tech: Pirates hack shipping company

Cunning tech-savvy pirates hacked a shipping company’s systems, enabling them to carefully target cargo on the firm’s vessels.

A report released by Verizon RISK (Research, Investigations, Solutions and Knowledge) Team reveals that “a global shipping conglomerate” fell victim to the high-tech pirates. The unnamed company contacted the Verizon cyber specialists after the pirates adopted a new strategy.  

“Rather than spending days holding boats and their crew hostage while they rummaged through the cargo, these pirates began to attack shipping vessels in an extremely targeted and timely fashion,” the report said. “Specifically, they would board a shipping vessel, force the crew into one area and within a short amount of time they would depart.”

Hours later, when the ships’ crews left their safe rooms, they discovered that the pirates had targeted certain cargo containers. “It became apparent to the shipping company that the pirates had specific knowledge of the contents of each of the shipping crates being moved,” the report explained. “They’d board a vessel, locate by bar code specific sought-after crates containing valuables, steal the contents of that crate—and that crate only—and then depart the vessel without further incident.”

Full article: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/03/02/from-high-seas-to-high-tech-pirates-hack-shipping-company.html?intcmp=hpbt3