{"id":3143,"date":"2023-02-14T11:08:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:08:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:08:20","slug":"the-dangers-of-ransomware-and-the-importance-of-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/2023\/02\/14\/the-dangers-of-ransomware-and-the-importance-of-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Ransomware and the Importance of Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3144\" src=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/02\/cybersecurity-300x183.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/02\/cybersecurity-300x183.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/02\/cybersecurity-768x467.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/02\/cybersecurity.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nowadays, pretty much everything that we know is online. It has made life as we know it so much more convenient. We pay bills, shop, talk to our friends, and so much more online. Essentially, our entire lives have become stored somewhere in our phones and computers. While that is glorious, it is also quite dangerous. It only takes one experienced hacker to get into your systems and collect all of your important information. Ransomware is where hackers hack into systems and hold information, hostage. Hospitals and healthcare are largely impacted by ransomware, which is a very scary thing. Considering everything that hospitals do is based on a system when someone hacks into that, it puts so many lives on the line. Healthcare workers cannot access important patient information, life-saving machines may not work, ambulances may be diverted from ERs, and those in the ER may not be able to get the care that they need. Therefore, having excellent cybersecurity is of the utmost importance nowadays. An important way to protect yourself is to ensure that you have strong passwords. Do not create passwords that someone could easily guess. Also, be careful about the attachments that you open, enable ad blockers, install a good antivirus program, and ensure that you have backup files. In doing all of those things, you help protect yourself against any attempts of someone trying to hack your most important information. I believe that educating people on the dangers of hackers and the importance of cybersecurity is more important today now than ever before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image link: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bernardmarr\/2022\/11\/11\/the-top-five-cybersecurity-trends-in-2023\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, pretty much everything that we know is online. It has made life as we know it so much more convenient. We pay bills, shop, talk to our friends, and so much more online. Essentially, our entire lives have become stored somewhere in our phones and computers. While that is glorious, it is also quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10531],"tags":[845065,555709,952,143,178,722310,75042,669510],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-student-post","tag-benefit","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data","tag-internet","tag-mis","tag-ransomware","tag-safety","tag-system","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}