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Hospitals are at a high risk of cyberattacks, but patients don't realize it:
Information technology experts are worried about increasing rates of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations. Most patients, though, don't know they're happening, according to a new survey.
Southern Ohio Medical Center, a not-for-profit hospital in Portsmouth, Ohio, canceled appointments for today and is diverting ambulances after it was hit by a cyberattack on Thursday. It's part of a series of escalating attacks on healthcare organizations in the past two years — a trend that could have serious consequences for patient care.
But while information technology experts are well aware that the risk of cyberattacks that compromise patient data and shut down computer systems is on the rise, patients don't seem to be, according to a new report by cybersecurity company Armis. In fact, over 60 percent of people in the general public surveyed in the new report said they hadn't heard of any cyberattacks in healthcare in the past two years.
That's despite a doubling of cyberattacks on healthcare institutions in 2020, high-profile incidents like the attack on hospital chain Universal Health Services, and a major threat from groups using the ransomware Ryuk. The magnitude of attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic shocked experts, who said that ransomware gangs were targeting hospitals more aggressively than they had before. Unlike attacks on banks or schools, which are also common, these attacks have the potential to directly injure people.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 18 2021, @02:55AM (1 child)
Curious - what does it take to build a "one-way mirror"? Just define it please, and maybe I will agree with you.
But, I think I would prefer complete isolation of infrastructure and critical systems. The lard-ass hospital administrator can physically haul his lame ass inside the hospital perimeter to make his inquiries. I view anything less as criminal mischief, criminal negligence, malfeasance, or similar.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 18 2021, @04:54AM
Glass, and a layer of reflective metal?
Oh, you were probably referring to the network metaphor huh. It seemed pretty clear that what they were describing was basically a RAID 1 setup that gets periodically restored over itself. (Or some similar thing before you object to my exact phrasing.)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"