www.wapt.com
It's frustrating. Also, while I realize that it's not entirely impossible, I sometimes think about how rare it is to hear about someone's brokerage, IRA, or 401k account getting hacked, drained, or deleted. In other words, what are they doing that other multi-trillion dollar industries like healthcare aren't doing?
They'll never find the source. Usually from overseas from some rouge state or nation that isn't going to assist at all.
It is backed up heavily with daily copy down environment, weekly copy down environment, shadow live reporting environment, and more.
Looks like we're about to test those backup procedures in a live situation. I pray they're as good as they're supposed to be. And they probably will be but you never really know until something like this happens.
You'd be surprised sophisticated scams are now. Even in the hiring world bots can get through application and phone screening. Some have even hired them. Once the person behind the bot gets inside the firewall they'll wreck ****. Weird world out there...
It was probably a 60+ year old admin who thought she was clicking a cute cat video or thought she really won a lottery. They ruin it for the rest of us when we have to use multi-factor logins to access or share anything at work, and the security VPN slows production down.
I work for a kids hospital. I get scam attempts all the time. Nobody is off limits. We have great education and prevention efforts but it's only a matter of time before awful people succeed at ripping off their target.
Honestly, it could happen to anybody. I don't care how careful you are, all it takes is one mistake. Don't be overconfident. But yeah, some are much more likely than others.
Oh, I know. I work in healthcare too, and I know that this can happen. It's just hard for me to believe sometimes how truly evil people can be in the pursuit of money.
Most of the money a hospital gets is from insurance not self pay - attack the insurance companies is a better ask.
I mean this is not even the first one in the State of Mississippi in the past two months. There are constant threats and being someone who dealt with Red Saturday at Singing River a few years ago - the backups and defense fortifications on the IT side have become great. Hell just look at the difference in how SRHS handled that attack vs. their most recent one.
Cyber security in in the power-gen industry is no joke. Every time I apply for access to a plant there is at least one hour of cyber security training. The biggest threat at plants now are unsecured digital media devices. Before you can use one they have to be cleared by IT security or be issued one by IT.
My bad. Industry I am in used a management system called EPIC that I believe is an acronym. So used to typing it in all caps that I guess old habits snuck in.
It's just business. illegal? Sure.
That’s great. Unless there’s a fire, or water damage, or something just gets misfiled or lost.
First day on earth? This wouldn’t even rank in the top 1000 evil things done today in the pursuit of money.
What does that have to do with how evil they are?
Nope. It will just always be hard for me to believe. I have a pretty high moral code, though. It will always bother me.
always hosted remotely "in the cloud" and all it takes is someone calling in to a person and claiming to be someone internal needing a password reset, etc to get access to do terrible things.
and that's dumb too. I have been working in secure systems for 40+ years and yes you have to protect against stupid. Which is usually people. If a cloud company does stuff like that, they need to be exposed and go out of business.
