Subj : Re: hackers targeting hospita
To : August Abolins
From : Phil Taylor
Date : Tue Feb 09 2021 09:18 pm
On Thu 7-May-2020 21:04 , August Abolins@2:221/1.58 said to Mike Powell:
AA> ** On Thursday 07.05.20 - 16:58, Mike Powell wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:
AA> >> Eg. People at work don't need to access Facebook or expose company
AA> >> computers to malicious site
AA> MP> Well... where I work, we have people whose job it is to locate
AA> persons.
AA> MP> One of the sources they use is Facebook. For whatever reason, a lot
AA> of
AA> MP> less than intelligent crooks will try to send us false contact data
AA> but
AA> MP> then post all about themselves on social media. :)
AA> OK.. I see the relevance for collection agencies especially when needing
One reason why I do not use social sites because they seem to be getting hacked. Take a look this
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51424352#:~:text=Facebook%27s%20social%20m Twiter got hacked.
AA> to locate persons. But even then, it would be wise to isolate work
AA> terminals for internet searches from the internal network used for
AA> accessing company accounts.
Where I work you can only got to sites on the internet if it's for official business.
AA> But I was thinking of places like hospitals and medical centers. In
AA> October last year a large medical center with offices all over the
AA> province/country was struck with a security breach. Then, a month later
AA> it was announced that is was ransomware. This was clearly activated by
AA> clicking on a false link.
AA>
https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/lifelabs-data-breach-the-
AA> largest-ever-in-canada-may-cost-the-company-over-1-billion-in-class-
AA> action-lawsuit/
To bad they do not have a methode to check the site to see if it's a security risk and block it before the user connects to it. Where I work they have security software that does it.
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