Hackers Hold Hospital for Ransom

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Trickstress

9 years ago

Well doesn't this make me feel great about the future

Mainard

9 years ago

Sometimes paying the ransom is the only thing you can do to even try to get your files back.

Also, to help against ransomware Malwarebytes put out their own anti-ransomware technology into a beta application. You can read more and check it out here: https://blog.malwarebytes.org/news/2016/01/introdu...

Stay safe on the Internet people...

someguyontheinternet

9 years ago

Another way not to get ransomware don't click on random links people post in their comments

Mainard

9 years ago

@someguyontheinternet Yea fair. But you can see the webpage being Malwarebytes; a well known anti-malware company. Your point is quite true still, don't trust all links on the Internet.

Continue being safe on the Internet! :)

TheRTV

9 years ago

It doesn't matter how secure you make your software, there will always be people out there trying to break that encryption. It's the risk you take by placing you information on the internet.

alexanka

9 years ago

If you force a hospital to pay a ransom you a massive cunt

TheBoJaN

9 years ago

If you force a patient to pay $20,000 you a massive cunt

alexanka

9 years ago

@Phatnaru Getting sick shouldn't ruin your life with debt.

TRSChaos

9 years ago

Why is it the manufacture fault the computer get hack? It's the consumer fault. If the consumer download a virus or leave a computer on, with little protection, connected to a network, its the consumer fault, not the computer company.

forgottenlor

9 years ago

Depends on the structure of the security put in place. The software I develop, there are a lot of ways it could break that I would absolutely say my company was at fault for improperly securing. There's also a lot of ways I could blame the customer, but if my software is not following general standards for security, it is definitely our fault if the known ways to break those forms of insufficient security get exploited

Orac

9 years ago

Elaborate advertising for Mr Robot? :P

motivatedchange

9 years ago

I work in a hospital, and my department was hit with a similar ransomware attack. Hospital in our case wouldn't pay because it was limited just our department and we're not critical to facility operations.

Since my boss was very insistent on saving all documents on the drive that was hit, other than one or two critical databases that I had backed up to a network folder (without his knowledge) we lost everything. It sucks

DarkTempler7

9 years ago

Why is anything important in a hosiptal connected to the internet in this day and age? That's just idiotic.

forgottenlor

9 years ago

Actually, they want more patient records to be connected to the Internet for a lot of good reasons. Patient records you want to be passed from department to department and digital records being accessible is much easier than non-digital and it becomes insanely hard if you want to build it as a double network. There's also digital submission of insurance claims, outside referrals, scheduling and allowing for online booking of appointments, and ways to communicate with remote employees such as nurses doing house calls. In fact, the medical profession has been derided by tech circles for how slow it has been to get into the digital age and take advantage of possible improvements the digital age can provide.

forgottenlor

9 years ago

I would not worry about you being attacked personally. Bill Gates and other very rich, sure, but you personally don't have sufficient personal wealth to be worth going after. Credit Card theft isn't being done to steal some credit cards, its being done to steal several hundred thousand credit cards and siphon off a few thousand each. Spending them time of handing out unlocks to each victim individually is expensive unless there's sufficient value in each individual attack and most individuals are unable to shell out more than a few hundred from their personal accounts.

GreyGhost9036

9 years ago

makes me think maybe the settlers from that direct tv commercial have it right. But then I realize I need my dose of Xcom

CatAss

9 years ago

I work in the call center that does the IT support of this hospital. Total cluster fuck.

Anacreaa

9 years ago

seeing gray in a metric shirt has been a very pleasant surprise :0

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