Hospital Horror Stories!
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Hearing all that was said was quite terrifying, from password concerns to the sheer number of internal vulnerabilities detected, I was simply astonished at the words coming from the speaker. These are machines handling personal health information, where critical vulnerabilities are publicized with no available patches or fixes are available for these unsupported systems. He showed pictures he took of Ethernet cables and switches caked with molasses and other icky stuff – ewww. Two examples he gave were more recent: one being where a finance department personnel fell victim to a fraudulent invoice totaling $500,000 (that’s a lot of money), and the other was a critical ransomware attack (which started at $900,000 that the staff was able to work down to $500,000). Obviously when you’re in a critical condition it may not mean as much at that time, your life is on the line after all, but it’s still a scary thought to know the gravity of just how poor hospital security allegedly is.
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