https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/getting-flu-could-harm-cybersecurity-healh/
I never considered that that a health crisis could also cause cyber security issues but this article makes a good point about why it occurs. With anything that causes the volume of what a user is asked to do to increase, that user is going to find ways to save time. Unfortunately what the user tends to do to save time is ignore protocols put in place to protect information. As hospital personnel are seeing many more patients than usual this flu season they are doing things like leaving themselves logged into terminals and leaving doors open that require a badge to enter. This is opening hospitals up to cyber attacks and putting patient’s information at risk.
I like the title for this post – it’s clever! And I can see that happening since the epidemic is causing many problems and when doctors and nurses are rushed, they will ignore protocols. As hospitals are usually targeted by hackers, this situation will definitely not help.