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2021-10-19 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Top cyber official: Hospital attack ‘purely financial,’ likely by Chinese group

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-10-19 00:49|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top
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#1 You can tell that they think it was from China, because nothing blew up in Iran. Or something.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-19 10:50|| 2021-10-19 10:50|| Front Page Top

#2 motives were "purely financial."

Nonsense.
Hospital IT systems are notoriously poorly managed and secured. They are often used as a gateway to hospital, government and other networks by intruders. By encrypting content [like access log files] victims must pay to find and block the intrusion.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-19 13:09|| 2021-10-19 13:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, no one has figured out to backup daily, weekly and monthly. Laziness can be expensive.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-10-19 14:03|| 2021-10-19 14:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Come on, man! We do regular backups. Everyone knows it is good IT practice. However, we never actually ran the drill of restoring a backup because who has time for that stuff? There's work to be done! So we never realized the dailies were corrupt and totally unusable until suddenly we needed them.

I've seen this happen at 2 different companies. I'm guessing they are not the only ones. But don't worry! They'll fix it later when they have more time.

Posted by SteveS 2021-10-19 14:49|| 2021-10-19 14:49|| Front Page Top

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