Windows TCO Leftovers
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The Register UK ☛ Ignore Uncle Sam's 'voluntary' cybersecurity goals for hospitals at your peril | Feds cough up 'voluntary' cybersecurity goals for hospitals • The Register
"It may not be today, but what is on HHS paper will most likely become what is in the actual final rulemaking or new regulatory requirements that become law," he said. "If you buy into the fact that voluntary doesn't mean you have to do something, you are probably going to be wrong. Voluntary goals become mandatory, and that has usually been the case with other rulemaking in healthcare as it relates to security."
In early January, as a record-breaking 46 health networks with a total of 141 hospitals between them were still reeling from ransomware infections and data theft in 2023, rumors started swirling that the White House would soon require US hospitals to meet basic cybersecurity standards before receiving federal funding.
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The Register UK ☛ Lurie Children's Hospital cyberattack forces systems offline • The Register [Ed: Windows Kills Children]
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The Verge ☛ The ransomware business is booming, even as enforcers shut down some major players
Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, the threat intelligence firm, found a 49 percent bump in victims reported by ransomware leak sites, totaling nearly 4,000 posts to those sites from different ransomware groups. Unit 42 said the uptick was due to the massive impact of attacks that exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, which are security flaws that developers have yet to identify. They pointed to the MOVEit Transfer software hack that the US government has connected to the CL0P Ransomware Gang, as one example. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency estimated that hack compromised more than 3,000 US-based organizations and 8,000 globally.
Nearly half of ransomware victims identified by Unit 42 were in the US, with the most impacted industries being manufacturing, professional and legal services, and high tech.