'League' of Cybersecurity Professionals Band Together To Help Hospitals (nbcnews.com) 7
pgmrdlm writes: A growing group of cybersecurity professionals is volunteering their expertise to help hospitals fight off hackers while doctors and nurses fight the coronavirus. Calling themselves the CTI League -- Countering Threat Intelligence, and a nod to the superhero team the Justice League -- the group has swelled from a handful of professionals to 450 members worldwide in less than two weeks. "If some hospital gets attacked by some ransomware and wouldn't be able to pay, people will die because they wouldn't be able to get the medical services needed," said the group's founder, Ohad Zaidenberg.
You can start with these brute forcers (Score:1)
who are currently attacking our local hospital relentessly
46.38.145.0/24
185.36.81.0/24
141.98.10.0/24
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Solidarity (Score:2)
All in all, it is always nice to see solidarity in the population. People doing whatever they can to help in such crisis.
Kudos to the good guys!
Comment fast! (Score:2)
The next dupe is just above.
Hospitals themselves are largely to blame (Score:2)
Good luck offering "cybersecurity" to a bunch of penny pinching execs and bumbling IT. I worked for an EMR provider and got to overhear support calls. Neglect and incompetence were at the root of many patient-visible outages.
Examples:
System down, nurses call us up saying they can't track medications for newborns. Meanwhile, clinic leadership has ignored our "you should upgrade you hardware before it breaks down" recommendations for months.
We require backups be made. MSP says they can do backups cheaper, and
Good, but too late (Score:2)
Good on them for doing this, but by the time they have anything in place security wise, the pandemic will be over.
I highly doubt there will be quick-security-gains to be had in the way these hospitals have everything setup/working.
It will be dificult to for example simply airgap these devices because of a multitude of reasons, same thing for adding a firewall in between (who will pay for this now?).
It's been in the news for years that hospitals are being attacked by ransomware and other malicious vectors, w