Hospital Gets Hacked with Ransomware

It's been noted by a number of security specialists that this will be the year of medical hacks. Not only hacking medical devices but hospital IT infrastructure. I seems like a lot of victims are just paying up. This one is demanding about $1600 in bit coins. I guess that's not a lot to pay for a hospital to get back online if the attackers actually deliver with the decryption key. There's no guarantee that they won't  just encrypt the system again.

From CNBC:

Methodist Hospital, based in Henderson, Kentucky, is the victim of a ransomware attack in which hackers infiltrated its computer network, encrypted files and are now holding the data hostage, Krebs reported Tuesday.

Maybe

Thinking about moving the Insecure By Default blog over here since it would be easier to maintain and post to.