How cyber crime affect our daily life?
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Answer:
Individuals and businesses can suffer significant financial loss because of cyber crime with the most obvious impact being theft. Loss of business can also be significant in the instance of a denial of service attacks for large corporations.
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Explanation:
1.) Ransomware Attacks On Hospitals
The Issue: In a recent blog post we mentioned that 75% of the healthcare industry has been infected with malware, this goes a little further. It is becoming more common for hospital's to experience ransomware attacks, an example of this happened at a Hollywood Hospital in Los Angeles.
The Hack: The Los Angeles hospital was hit with ransomware and required to pay a ransom of $3 million in bitcoin. The hospital ended up paying $17,000 to gain access back to its files. While they did have the data backed up on server, the compromised server and the backup were connected to the network at the time of the breach. Meaning they couldn't access the backups either.
This puts a lot of patients at risk. Without access to its records the hospital can't provide the proper care to its patients and this can result in potential death.
The Resolution: This is an ongoing issue for the healthcare industry because of the old systems that they are using and lack of IT budget. In the healthcare industry roughly 2% of the budget is allocated to IT and only about 10% of it is used for security.
The hospital already paid the ransom by the time they got law enforcement involved. The attack forced the hospital to return to pen and paper record keeping until systems were restored.
2.) Compromising Baby Monitors
The Issue: With many baby monitors now able to connect to your smartphone and by extension your personal network, it has become more common for hackers to connect to your baby monitors and cause all sorts of trouble for you. In one example a hacker even played music through the monitor to scare the family.
The Hack: When a baby monitor is compromised the hacker can access a variety of information from your baby monitor whether it's through the video camera or the audio playback features by connecting to your home network. This leads to a serious invasion of privacy and can allow the hacker to access very sensitive private information that may come up in conversation such as financial or medical information.
The hacker can then use the information gained this way to extort you or your family for money.
The Resolution: To avoid hacks like these: first, be sure that your password for the baby monitor you are using follows best practices. Also, make sure your wi-fi is password protected. In addition, keep your monitoring system up-to-date with any security patches the manufacturer may release, including antivirus and firewall.
3.) Hacked Through Public Wi-Fi
The Issue: When connecting to a public wi-fi connection you always run the risk of having information stolen from an outside source. When you're connected to public wi-fi anyone else on the network can access your devices to get to your personal information. This can range from attacks known as a "man in the middle" attack to creating fake wi-fi connections to steal data.
Watch this video from Security Awareness Training company KnowBe4 that describes exactly how hackers gain access to sensitive information via public wi-fi.
The Hack: In an attack referred to as the "Man in the Middle" method a hacker disrupts the direct connection between a user and a wi-fi connection to collect information. While the fake wi-fi connection is a connection set up by the hacker, it looks very similar to a legitimate network.
Cybercriminals use generic names for the wi-fi network that look like something a business would use. For example they may use a name such as "STARBUCKS Guest" when the actual name for the network is "Starbucks Guest." The hacker can then use this connection to steal information from a user.
The Resolution: These types of attacks effect some 689 million users a year and an average victim can spend as many as 19.7 hours trying to deal with losses or damages. To avoid this problem, do not use unsecured public wi-fi connections. If you must, never go to websites that include personal information such as banking or medical records.