Drex covers three critical cybersecurity stories in healthcare: Kettering Health Network's ransomware crisis affecting 14 hospitals with patient data at risk, a landmark $700,000 civil penalty against Breach Forums founder Connor Fitzpatrick, and the release of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) 2.0 with enhanced breach monitoring capabilities. Stay informed on the latest healthcare security threats and solutions.
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Hey everyone. I'm Drex, and this is the two minute drill where I cover three hot security stories twice a week. All part of the 2 29 Cyber and Risk Community here at this week, health, today's episode is brought to you by Google. Healthcare Systems are lowering cost and boosting endpoint security. With Chrome OS devices paired with Chrome Enterprise, a secure browser that's trusted by billions of users.
So now there's a better way for healthcare teams to work safely on the web. Learn more or schedule some time with the Google Healthcare team at this week, health.com/chromeos. Good to see everyone today. Here's some stuff you might wanna know about. Breaking news right now looks like Ohio's Kettering Health Network with 14 hospitals across the region has been hit by ransomware.
According to the reports critical systems are down and elective procedures have been canceled, and the call center is also down. Hospital incident command team has. Swung into high gear. The cyber thugs who are responsible, this have apparently given Kettering 72 hours to make a payment of some kind, or they're threatening to release patient data.
I'll be keeping an eye on this one and I'll keep you posted. You already know how much I love it when someone who works in a cyber gang gets a taste of justice. Well, you should read the story about Connor Brian Fitzpatrick, who's the founder of Breach Forums, which is a very popular data broker site on the dark web.
That's a. Place where other cyber thugs come once they steal data and they offer it for sale to the highest bidder. It's kind of like a flea market for stolen personal data and business data. Fitzpatrick had already been arrested, convicted, and sentenced for that and other crimes I. Including possession of child sexual abuse material.
the Breach Forum site back in:That insurance company, nonstop Health was sued by class action lawyers. For that breach, but in a whole new tactic. The class action lawyers and nonstop also added Fitzpatrick to the lawsuit. It's the first time an individual cyber criminal has been added to a class action lawsuit like this, and whether or not the class will see any of the $700,000 they've been awarded is probably up for debate, but it opens up a whole new legal tactic for the future.
Finally today, I've talked about in the past the have I Been phone database. It's a place where you can go and type in your email address and find out if it's been involved in a data breach, along with a bunch of other cool information about those breaches. Individuals can use the website, but via APIs.
A lot of companies also use the site. To kind of beef up their own cyber intel threat efforts. A new version 2.0 of HIBP has just been released. The reporting layout's really cool. You can see all the breach disasters your email addresses have been involved in, and you can even sign up for alerting on any new breaches that are reported for that email address.
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That's it for today's two minute drill. Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid and I'll see you around campus.