California hospital network being held for ransom

[Black]

Holy crap.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/15/110047...e-hospital

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Stick a fork in those guys.

[hal]

If anonymous ever wanted to play the good guy, here's it's chance...

[Black]

hal wrote:
If anonymous ever wanted to play the good guy, here's it's chance...

Dunno- hospitals might be "the man." After all they were charged with keeping their patients' private info secure and they seem to have failed miserably.

[C(-)ris]

Black wrote:
[quote=hal]
If anonymous ever wanted to play the good guy, here's it's chance...

Dunno- hospitals might be "the man." After all they were charged with keeping their patients' private info secure and they seem to have failed miserably.
I'd imaging there are going to be some negligence suites filed and some people being fired. These types of virus' shouldn't spread like that in an environment that has to deal with HIPPA data.

[GGD]

Black wrote:
After all they were charged with keeping their patients' private info secure and they seem to have failed miserably.

Sounds like it's pretty secure, very well encrypted at the moment.

[Black]

GGD wrote:
[quote=Black]
After all they were charged with keeping their patients' private info secure and they seem to have failed miserably.

Sounds like it's pretty secure, very well encrypted at the moment. :goodone:

[RAMd®d]

Dunno- hospitals might be "the man." After all they were charged with keeping their patients' private info secure and they seem to have failed miserably.

Maybe.

It's certainly a failure, no denying.

I wonder- is it because they didn't take HIPPA or security seriously, or because the low-life hackers were that much better.

"...likely meaning a hospital staffer clicked a malicious link or attachment that ultimately spread the malware throughout the network."

Even if that's exactly what happened, I don't see how it makes them "the Man", not because of the actions of one careless employee.

Now, if their admin password was 1234, Password, or Hooray, then maybe so.

[Jack D.]

I don't know much about ransom ware but why can't you just nuke and re-pave from a backup done before the attack? I would think that a hospital would be doing at least daily backups no?

[Racer X]

Now that just crazy talk.