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Health care’s huge cybersecurity problem
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1025" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18293817/cybersecurity-hospitals-health-care-scan-simulation" target="_blank"><strong>Health care’s huge cybersecurity problem - The Verge</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Cyberattacks aren’t just going after your data</strong></p><p></p><p>he patient lying on the emergency room table in front of Paul Pugsley was having a stroke. Time was running out. Pugsley, an emergency medicine resident at Maricopa Medical Center, knew he needed to send the patient for a CT scan.</p><p></p><p>But when Pugsley looked over at the computer screen at the side of the room, he saw a pop-up message demanding bitcoin payment. A few minutes later, he was told that the same message had shut down the scanner — he’d have to help the patient without knowing whether the stroke was caused by a bleed or a clot, information that’s usually vital to the course of treatment.</p><p></p><p>After a few minutes of frantic workarounds, the patient — actually a medical test dummy — was wheeled out the room (prognosis: survival, but serious brain damage). The flashing ransom note was part of a simulation, designed to expose physicians like Pugsley to the very real threat of cyberattacks on their hospitals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1025, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18293817/cybersecurity-hospitals-health-care-scan-simulation'][B]Health care’s huge cybersecurity problem - The Verge[/B][/URL] [B]Cyberattacks aren’t just going after your data[/B] he patient lying on the emergency room table in front of Paul Pugsley was having a stroke. Time was running out. Pugsley, an emergency medicine resident at Maricopa Medical Center, knew he needed to send the patient for a CT scan. But when Pugsley looked over at the computer screen at the side of the room, he saw a pop-up message demanding bitcoin payment. A few minutes later, he was told that the same message had shut down the scanner — he’d have to help the patient without knowing whether the stroke was caused by a bleed or a clot, information that’s usually vital to the course of treatment. After a few minutes of frantic workarounds, the patient — actually a medical test dummy — was wheeled out the room (prognosis: survival, but serious brain damage). The flashing ransom note was part of a simulation, designed to expose physicians like Pugsley to the very real threat of cyberattacks on their hospitals. [/QUOTE]
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