US hospital computers are frequently kidnapped by hackers: security awareness needs to be improved
With the increasing complexity of medical system information, modern large-scale medical institutions have a large-scale computer information system, which involves not only the basic operations from registration to prescribing drugs, but also the resources of patients and even medical personnel. Among them, hackers also noticed this and began to attack hospitals for kidnapping computer systems for redemption. Many incidents reminded the medical community that hospitals are actually one of the important targets of hackers.
In February 2016, the computer system of the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center was invaded, hacking and locking important files, requiring 40 bitcoin to unlock, and the hospital could only pay ransom in the middle of the world; Washington, late March 2016 The SAR's MedStar Health is also suspected of being attacked by hackers. The computer system can only read the existing medical records but cannot update it, and jumps out of the window and asks for a 45-bit ransom. The hospitals under the medical star health system The clinic was forced to shut down the computer system and returned to the era of handwritten medical records.
These medical hacking incidents have made other hospitals in the United States alert themselves to being a fat sheep in the eyes of hackers, so they began to strengthen their security. The Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts is one of them, and the Kangqiao United Hospital Some assessments believe that to strengthen the security, it is necessary to make the security measures smooth and convenient to use, so that employees will not be vulnerable to troubles, but to make security measures easy to use, the first reform is to remove password.
In order to avoid forgetting passwords, many people often set passwords as simple numbers that are well remembered. This is easy to be guessed. It is usually the same password that goes to the world, so after the passwords elsewhere are hacked and fished, The hospital has also followed suit. To solve this problem, the solution once and for all is to never use a password to log in. Instead of using fingerprint identification or card sensing to authenticate the identity of the person, there is no password, and naturally there is no problem of password outflow.
Hold a security accident drill
Prior to this, the hospital used fake fishing to train employees to be alert to the security. The hospital's security department regularly sent fishing letters to employees. If the employees were deceived by fishing letters, they would link to anti-phishing. The teaching webpage ensures that each employee has basic anti-phishing knowledge and will not invade the hospital system due to the outflow of phishing passwords.
Since 2015, Kangqiao United Hospital has even conducted a medical emergency drill, just like regular medical emergency drills, to test the management team's response to hacking and learn how to deal with it.
According to IBM statistics, medical institutions are the most frequently hacked organizations in 2015, partly because the information systems of medical institutions contain a large amount of personal data, and the medical system relies heavily on computers to become a good target for kidnapping. However, another possible reason is that the proportion of hackers in other industries may be underestimated, because the medical system is attacked, the authorities will force it to publish, and other companies are sometimes attacked when they are attacked, so the number of records is small.
In any case, the security of the medical institution is extremely important for the patient's medical safety. The computer system is locked, not just the trouble of adjusting the medical record. The medical staff who are not familiar with the manual process are more likely to have many mistakes and may even cause the patient's life. Dangerous, so the hospital's security is indeed the most important.
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