Remarkableriots Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Lurie Children's Hospital network outage continues as hospital responds to 'cybersecurity matter' WWW.GOOGLE.COM A network outage at Lurie Children's Hospital has impacted phones, email and internet service as the hospital investigates a "cyber security matter." Quote Cyber security experts said cyberattacks are on the rise and will continue to increase. Hospitals used to be off limits, but not anymore; experts say they've become top targets because they don't typically have the budget or staff to prevent sophisticated attacks and it's profitable. "Hospitals are a treasure trove of private data. Hospitals have so much information about us or medical histories, financial documents, insurance," said Ray Klump, cybersecurity expert. "The hackers are using the information that the steal and then they start using that information against patients because health care information is much more rich than just credit info," said Pete Nicoletti of Check Point Software. Seems like this is going to continue to get worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Yep, education and healthcare are top targets now because they don't have the budgets for qualified security experts and systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Jesus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFKAK Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 This happened at my hospital last year, locked out a bunch of data on various research, clinical trials etc, the university just paid it as it was easier and they needed the data as several of the trials were active experimental therapies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Time to reverse hack these fucking scum bags. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 I really don't even know what could be done about this short of some kind of diet Dune scenario where email is banned. Having thousands of staff members be one errant click away from completely fucking over the entity they work for is just not sustainable. I "fell" for one of the phishing scam tests at my job when my mouse battery was dead; when I went to mouse over a URL in the email to see where it was going to take me, my trackpad registered moving my mouse as a click. Harmless in my case but if it'd been a real phish? Cooked. And if Jim Browning can be scammed into temporarily losing his YouTube channel, nobody's safe. This says nothing of situations where things like Strava revealing the location of military bases and routes. Something's going to have to give and I don't know what it'll be or what it's going to take. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 It'll get worse because every medium to large organization is a mix of new cloud based shit and stuff written in the 80s. They're all worked by your mom who will definitely click that funny link that the CEO personally sent her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 I wonder if the attacks continue to outpace good defence, will we enter an age where tech becomes impossible to secure? I don't think we'll end up like Dune, but we could potentially see less interconnected systems unless they are absolutely required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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