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BTW, another heads up:

Ascension (one of the biggest players in US healthcare) was hacked a week ago by a Russian group using ransomware to extort payment. The IT folks have been working on it, but one of the immediate results, and precautions, was disconnecting from all other systems to try to limit issues.

There are a LOT of patients whose records can’t be accessed at this time, which means not only issues regarding healthcare coverage, but even appointments and procedures.

As with the hack of Change/United; for some reason, it’s not on the news. 😕
 
bluemax_1 said:
BTW, another heads up:

Ascension (one of the biggest players in US healthcare) was hacked a week ago by a Russian group using ransomware to extort payment. The IT folks have been working on it, but one of the immediate results, and precautions, was disconnecting from all other systems to try to limit issues.

There are a LOT of patients whose records can’t be accessed at this time, which means not only issues regarding healthcare coverage, but even appointments and procedures.

As with the hack of Change/United; for some reason, it’s not on the news. 😕
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The provincial government of BC up here just had their system hacked by a 'state-actor'. They didn't say who, but it's pretty obvious that it's Russia.

Russia and the US are currently conducting the largest cyberwar in history behind the scenes. It's really odd to be it's not getting talked about enough.
 
Kulainn said:
The provincial government of BC up here just had their system hacked by a 'state-actor'. They didn't say who, but it's pretty obvious that it's Russia.

Russia and the US are currently conducting the largest cyberwar in history behind the scenes. It's really odd to be it's not getting talked about enough.
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weird, eh?
not sure if it's obvious it's Russia, though. India makes more sense given the 4 guys alleged to have assassinated Hardeep Singh Nijjar- at India's government 's direction- were arrested a few days ago.
 
Last weekend in Munich, Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, said that hacking operations from China were now directed against the United States at “a scale greater than we’d seen before.” And at a recent congressional hearing, Mr. Wray said China’s hacking program was larger than that of “every major nation combined.”

From the „unbiased“ Times, no less:

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Blues said:
But they know we'd turn theirs off...and they're just not that stupid. (Yet.)
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I started to say something about how the current administration, love them or hate them, they have some competent people in some important positions and they are doing a pretty good job dealing with the Russian cyber war. It doesn't get a lot of news, but if you've read about some of the actions they've taken, it's pretty cool. Not to get too political, but the other party was less focused on competent people in important positions than the career politician that we currently have in office. I don't like either one of them, but I do think there are some unsung heroes in our intelligence agencies right now.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I started to say something about how the current administration, love them or hate them, they have some competent people in some important positions and they are doing a pretty good job dealing with the Russian cyber war. It doesn't get a lot of news, but if you've read about some of the actions they've taken, it's pretty cool. Not to get too political, but the other party was less focused on competent people in important positions than the career politician that we currently have in office. I don't like either one of them, but I do think there are some unsung heroes in our intelligence agencies right now.
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I’m happy to hear you say that, Nathan. I think my mom blew a gasket when I said something positive about the current administration and now believes that I am a socialist. Our political environment is so toxic that people demonize their opposition and can’t admit when the “other side” does a good job.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I'm a centrist moderate and people like me are getting attacked from both sides and I'm tired of it. Next person calls me a rhino gets dagged
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I agree. When I say things like "we need to stop attacking/banning transexuals, abortion, guns, and religion", then people look at me like I'm crazy.
 
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