Months After Hacks, DHS Sends a Warning About Hospital Ransomware (vice.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Since February, at least a dozen hospitals have been affected by ransomware, malware that encrypts a victim's files until they cough up a bounty to the hackers. In response, US-CERT, the country's Computer Emergency Readiness Team, issued an alert on March 31 warning potential victims of the risks, and how to protect themselves. But, considering that some hospitals have already had to divert emergency services, push high-risk operations to future dates, and even turn away some patients, is the alert too little, too late?

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Interesting

[The-Ixian]

I happened to be watching broadcast TV yesterday and I saw a PSA put on by some kind of law enforcement organization.

The PSA was about public wifi hotspots and told people to turn off their wifi when they leave the house and if you do connect to a public wifi hotspot, don't do e-commerce or other sensitive transactions.

I was floored. It was such a good and informative message I couldn't believe its source.

Perhaps there is a governmental push for these types of messages now...