Ransomware, and why are hospitals often targeted?
\nRansomware is a form of malware. Digital criminals take over victim\u2019s personal data and ask for a ransom if the victim wants his data back. Unfortunately, hospitals are popular targets for such activities. Hospitals in their modern day activities need data to perform. When doctors have to visit tenth in not hundreds of patients daily, it becomes impossible to remember patients data. Digitally recording patient data and using it to diagnoses or for prescription drugs is a typical process. However, if hospital workers don\u2019t have access to this data, their hands are bind. And we have to remember that if and individual victim can wait and think about a plan of action, hospital patients don\u2019t have such luxury. Time is crucial in most of these cases. Thus, hospitals usually prefer to pay ransom and don\u2019t risk patients lives.
\nUnfortunately, solving this problem is hard, it is an ongoing battle since criminals update their digital weapons every time hospitals update their firewall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ransomware, and why are hospitals often targeted? Ransomware is a form of malware. Digital criminals take over victim\u2019s personal data and ask for a ransom if the victim wants his data back. Unfortunately, hospitals are popular targets for such activities. Hospitals in their modern day activities need data to perform. When doctors have to visit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29453,"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":[663943],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-instructor","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","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\/29453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4214,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions\/4214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}