The Cyberattacks Plaguing America’s Hospitals

If you thought COVID-19 was the only dangerous virus overwhelming our hospital system, think again. Thanks to a new breed of software called “ransomware” and a woeful lack of cybersecurity, our hospitals and health care workers are in desperate need of support...STAT.

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[acchaladka]

My hospital here in Canada was hit by this, super topic. Fortunately they managed to isolate and shut the system down before much damage was done. Still, the hospital IT was off line for about three months. This is a serious crime and real issue.

[pavarottiaardvark]

Fun fact: The last time this happened in Britain, the part where I live (Wales) was relatively unscathed because the system was SO outdated that it the modern attack didn't work.

[twisted]

Black hat hacking is one thing, but this is beyond the pale. You know times are hard when the criminals start feeding on the sick and dying.

[chriseaton]

This is bigger than "helping hospitals." We need a cyber security train up labor movement. As soon as hospitals are a hardened target, everything she listed becomes next.

[salenebrom]

Why don’t hackers just erase all medical debt in this country it would save a Lotta people a Lotta anguish

[geoffreypeterson]

The writers were so stoked to have a reason to make Vermont references that they put all of them into a blender and hit frappé.

[ArrKayLondon]

Like everything it's because management haven't invested enough into IT and they use outdated OS with exploits, never update or install security patches.
Cyber security is part of running any modern business.

[deeraz]

I think it's important to talk about education when talking about cybersecurity. Because it doesn't matter how much money you pour into this, it doesn't matter if you're on the latest OS version and have anti-virus/malware software installed - if people keep clicking on links and documents they shouldn't - these attacks will continue to succeed.

[HighPriestofLemuria]

This is beyond black hat, this is despicable, it is outright villainy. Victimizing the sick? You have no soul and no shame, you should be put down.

[uthmanbaksh]

If you go to your doctor's office and their computer is running Windows 7 or earlier, Get out of there!

[cantbeleveitsnotnaru]

They've been really bad at my work lately. One I got today said it was from our IT, and that because of all the attacks they wanted you to test your password strength. But I'm not dumb, and I reported it.

[MrAlessiobat]

Since we can’t be able to fight the hackers, we should extensively train staff to stop opening email attachments and investing in antivirus program

[billmurray]

Waiting for Netflix to make a
Miniseries about this.
Then the people will be
more aware .
Nobody knew what identity theft
was until Sandra Bullock did
the 🎥, "THE NET".

[theoldesttrees]

Keeping a daily offline backup ensures you don't have to worry about evil a$$holes stealing your stuff. Key is "offline". The ransomware code profligates into backups that are online.

[getnkosi]

...that was everything we know about Vermont, in one punchline, lol🤣

[DragcoDavid]

As someone who is quite familiar with IT; yeah, it often really is that easy. Most of our stuff is so horribly insecure. The sad thing is that... that video game where you play as a hacker who can hack into pretty much everything? Sadly, there is a lot more truth to that then most are willing to admit.

[grojas]

"...People click on that, they always click on that..." LOL So true!

[layne]

can confirm - when I was in the hospital last year (just slightly prior to covid) I was kind of shocked - one of my therapists was still using XP. either that, or it was an XP machine that kept the XP "look" but was actually upgraded to Vista. either way uh.... yeah. given how much healthcare costs in this country, it's always amazing how old and busted things look in alot of hospital that aren't on TV.

[DeathlyTired]

Telling me it launches a missile attack on Clippy makes me *more* likely to do it.

[quantumdino]

The NHS in Britain had the same attack a few years ago.