[HN Gopher] Cyberattack forces US health care network to divert ...
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Cyberattack forces US health care network to divert ambulances from
hospitals
Author : arkadiyt
Score : 23 points
Date : 2024-05-12 16:59 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.cnn.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.cnn.com)
| labrador wrote:
| Since there are state actors attemting to sow public disorder in
| the U.S. it seems increasingly like a bad idea to have hosptital
| networks and the like on public networks accessible from around
| the globe.
| blackeyeblitzar wrote:
| If these are state actors, then the US state needs to grow a
| backbone and treat these as an actual act of war. China,
| Russia, and the like need to face serious consequences or they
| will only go further.
| salad-tycoon wrote:
| Many of us would like to not get blown up and to not blow up
| other random strangers.
|
| It's easy to say an eye for an eye but I think if you've seen
| enough shell shock / ptsd the taste for war becomes bitter,
| although in the pre conception/ fantasy phase the taste is
| powerfully sweet and titillating.
|
| Also, things tend to accelerate as they get towards the end.
| So Oceania does X to us, we have to do x+y, then they do
| x+y+z and on and on as overt escalation is normalized.
|
| Serious consequences swings both ways. Maybe, just maybe,
| there could be another way rather than getting shaken up and
| angry.
|
| I don't want my kids at the bottom of a ruble heap. I don't
| won't yours there either.
| ethanwillis wrote:
| I think it's easy to say this when you're not needing
| healthcare and another nation state has made your local
| hospital unusable.
|
| edit: and parent comment never said consequences would be
| war.
| libertine wrote:
| So your suggestion is to shrug it off, and allow this
| behavior to continue.
|
| Like what happened with flight MH17, where Russia killed
| 300 people, just send a very tough letter.
| nitwit005 wrote:
| It's meaningless to say you don't like violence when you
| can't suggest an alternative.
| jart wrote:
| The U.S. doesn't even consider it a crime. Read
| https://rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/foreign-malicious-
| cybe... and notice how the USG only cares if the hackers are
| acting under the direction of a foreign government. These
| days ransomware is about as illegal as corporate raiding and
| short selling.
| nradov wrote:
| Official US government statement: "When warranted, we will
| respond to hostile attacks in cyberspace as we would to any
| other threat to our country. We reserve the right to use all
| necessary means - diplomatic, informational, military and
| economic - to defend our nation, our allies, our partners and
| our interests."
|
| https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7AF02Y/
|
| The problem is attribution. If a cyber attack is traced to an
| IP address in Russia it's almost impossible to know for
| certain that it was really sponsored by the Russian
| government. It could have been some random kid in Australia
| who pwned a vulnerable computer in Russia and used it to
| launch an attack for the lulz.
|
| Since deterrence is ineffective for cyber defense we need to
| put our focus into hardening critical systems.
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