On September 9, 2020, the University Hospital of the city of Dusseldorf suffered a Ransomware attack that caused the fall of its systems including the controls of the emergency room, as a result patients in need of special care had to be transferred and one patient died as a result of it.
The repercussions of cyber attacks are becoming more serious and we need to pay close attention to the people who depend on us.
In security, our responsibility is to safeguard the lives of the people who depend on us, from their quality of life to the information they need to maintain it.
For some time there have been reports of hackers experiencing, successfully, the intrusion in pacemakers, for general knowledge a good number of modern pacemakers have integrated Bluetooth and cloud technology for control and diagnosis, this technology has been used as an input mode for reprogramming and / or turning off the pacemaker.
Something so simple has very dangerous connotations in that the kidnapping or elimination of a vulnerable person no longer requires obvious weapons, a shielding of software protection standards is necessary for all types of devices in companies but with special attention to those that may even remotely threaten lives.
Ignorance of these factors will not repair the loss of this family, even more it opens a precedent that it is imperative to accept, computer resources even in a hospital environment, facilitate and accelerate our lives, but they are vulnerable, their violation threatens us and we must protect them.
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Source:
https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/patient-dies-after-ransomware-attack-on-dusseldorf-hospital-24159.html
https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/dusseldorf-university-hospital-emergency-care-postponed-after-alleged-cyber-attack-24149.html
https://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/ueber-uns/pressemitteilungen/detail/update-16-uhr-uniklinik-duesseldorf-massiver-netzwerkausfall
https://wgem.com/2020/09/17/german-hospital-hacked-patient-taken-to-another-city-dies/
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/are-pacemakers-defibrillators-vulnerable-to-hackers
https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20180220/could-hackers-target-heart-devices#1