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“This cyberattack on a hospital not only could have had disastrous consequences, but patient’s personal information was also compromised,” said Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta.
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That’s one way of convincing your customer they should treat cybersecurity seriously.
“if you don’t pay us protection money, we will burn your hospital down (but in a ‘nothing on the computer network works’ kind of way)”
57 months of probation? No, that should be jail time.
On the upside, boy did he expose how weak security is.
How the hell did he get caught? “Security expert” , right?
How the hell did he get caught? “Security expert” , right?
I went to a conference that CISA talked at. They are actively scanning the Internet for threats to infrastructure and institutions and work closely with the FBI to track people down. They contact a lot of people about cyber attacks. Like a LOT.
So, don’t hack hospitals and threaten them to drum up business. Got it.
if only really simple and really secure systems (software) existed.
I mean, flaws comes from complexity and obscurity.
