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2021-10-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hospital has ‘no idea’ of scale of cyberattack havoc; recovery could take months

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#1 HINT: Never expect IT Security if WiFi is in use.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-15 04:57|| 2021-10-15 04:57|| Front Page Top

#2 HINT: Never expect IT Security if auto-update and device health checks are self-reported to technology vendors. Most lab equipment, Xray, CAT, MRI, PET scanners, and even Johnson Controls HVAC systems, call home with performance data.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-15 07:23|| 2021-10-15 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Some years back, the VA had a three-day outage caused by a botched data center re-alignment. The hospitals went to paper. In three days they had a warehouse full of docs to enter into the system.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-15 09:31|| 2021-10-15 09:31|| Front Page Top

#4 WRT diagnostic equipment, some older stuff from several of the big makers is so hopelessly abandoned by their manufacturers support-wise that the only safe way to use them is a clean software load at startup every day and a local backup of acquired data every night.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-15 09:33|| 2021-10-15 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep, big GE MRI scanners.
Rotating 2 hr outages every night to 'bare metal' format disks and reload XP + aps from pristine media.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-15 09:54|| 2021-10-15 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Some things just shouldn't be connected to the World-Wide Web.

Posted by magpie 2021-10-15 17:45|| 2021-10-15 17:45|| Front Page Top

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