Under pressure to digitize everything, hospitals are hackers’ biggest new target
Excerpt:
"And hospitals, in particular, are vulnerable. In the weeks before the attack on MedStar, hackers hit Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, extorting $17,000 in bitcoin out of the leadership, and Kentucky-based Methodist Hospital, which declared a state of emergency after an attack. Two southern California hospitals, part of Prime Healthcare Services, were attacked in March.
[These hackers can hold a town hostage. And they want ransom — paid in bitcoin.]
Justin Harvey, the chief security officer of Fidelis Cybersecurity, said the hackers’ success is likely to make them bolder, and he worries about critical infrastructure in the United States."
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As I was reading this I had to ask if this was just an accident that these systems are being set up with such easy access or is the Government just sending the message "See, an open internet is bad," We Need To Keep You Safe" smiling gleefully! We have been led so cunningly to the "seeds" of our own imprisonment in so many areas.
