While health care has become the primary target for cybercriminals in recent years, putting lives at risk, the sector paradoxically invests less in cybersecurity than any other industry, leaving high-value data vulnerable to attack.

For cybercriminals, targeting health data “is a perfect business plan,” said Christos Xenakis, professor at the department of digital systems at the University of Piraeus, Greece. “It’s easy to steal data, and what you steal, you can sell it at a high price.”

However, other types of cyberattacks are also on the rise, including those by pro-Russian hacktivists aiming to disrupt health care operations, rather than for profit.

While the risks are clear, national governments are skimping on prevention, Xenakis believes, saying that he has no good example of a country “that has invested a lot in cybersecurity in the health sector.”

Magalini also pointed out another shortcoming: cybersecurity consultancies that assist hospitals often originate from outside Europe. “They are either from the United States or Canada … also from Russia,” she said, adding that there should be a “European way of doing cybersecurity.”

we’re watching a replay of the tobacco-asbestos-oil story again

Even hollywood has better sequels

Well to be honest, Microsofts route also doesnt seem to work out. I am not surprised they try another way.

Funny how a lot of communication about this uses Korea and not South Korea.

I feel like this too, but considering their past i think i can understand.

Please not, let them continue to have the moral high ground because that will make it a lot easier to continue to support them. Also we need the Russian population on our side. Look at how Israels attack on Iran made Iranians more supportive of the regime. Russians will rally behind their flag as soon as they become afraid of Ukranian agression. Military targets aren’t just objects, but also influencial individuals. They have already succesfully eliminated generals in Moscow for example.

We need to further press our leaders in not letting this amoral regime continue to kill innocent civilians, supplying Ukraine with the means to kick Russia out.

Depends on how you look at it. If you believe democracy is a system of government for the people, your statement is wrong, as soon as those in power only think of themselves the system is no longer democratic but something else. Democracy can also mean by the people, in which case you’d also be wrong: as soon as a powerful class hijacks the system they turn it into something that is not democratic. The problem is we don’t use the word democracy very strictly, which is why what you’re saying makes a lot of sense. Because what we basically all have is a system of government that puts a handful of people in fairly powerful positions, and not a democracy.

The enemy is preparing your* children

Well he was still targeted, so I’d argue that alone still makes him a dissident. But my point isn’t really about this individual guy but about how Russia systematically targets places and people in Europe for various reasons all benefiting the Russian regime and European governments don’t publicly call Russia out for those things. If anything happens, it is ‘quite diplomacy’ or counter intelligents that nobody ever hears about and I’m not okay with that.

If you’re gonna continue promote this unpopular opinion, you could add ‘and if you’re not: prepare to lose your son/brother/father/male of fighting age friend. And either way: prepare for a loss in income and availability of food and other essential goods’. Best of luck.

I’m not sure i get what you mean, why put dissident between quotation marks? Do you doubt he is?

He was a member of the Right Cause political party and was expected to become chairman of its Moscow section. Chichvarkin currently lives in London, from where he has campaigned against corruption in Russia and president Vladimir Putin personally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Chichvarkin

do you just happen to know them

I recognise the name, because of all the posts.

is there a way to check for this kind of thing?

Not sure how but since he posted on other instances i guess those posts are still up.

I might be wrong about the nature of the account, that’s why I’m asking after all

Glad you do, might be the only way to find out what others think

doesn’t look like a person interested in engaging with other persons

I agree it doesnt seem he is interested in engaging with other persons. Which means he could be an automated bot, and i’m not saying he couldn’t be. I am saying i dont think he is, because of the quality of his posts. Both the content is good and it’s placed well. But i can’t give you a definite answer unfortunately.

I get your point, but the other extreme (be silent if your not willing or able to pick up a gun) is also not great. Don’t want to argue with you, but point out this should be about finding the right middle ground.

Thanks for sharing, I totally believe a 4-day workweek would be beneficial for individuals and totally believe that translates to better results in certain workplaces. I am not in any way against it. The link however doesnt seem to say anything about how that trsnslates to lower healthcare cost for the state, which is what this post is about - spending less tax money. Not saying i’m in favour of Frances solution though.

I don’t like this either, but I refuse to believe their real goal is ‘stealing’ peoples privacy’ (though you can’t really steal it because you can’t own someone else their privacy, but that’s another story). I think it is much more because of ignorance and naivety, unaware of the negative consequences. I can imagine there is a more benevolent lobby behind the scenes that would benefit from this, but EU isn’t oppresive enough to benefit from accessing private data from ‘regular’ people.

Op was on lemm.ee before moving, his contributions aren’t a recent thing. If he would be what you call a repost-bot the links would likely be from more random low-quality sources and also wouldn’t be neatly posted to the most relevant community.

I doubt that, If having a day off would decrease healthcare expenses that much we would have a 4-day workweek by now.

Too bad Ootje Oxenaar isn’t among us anymore. We (the Dutch) had really nice notes before the Euro.

Looked up a link for anyone interested: https://www.pcgs.com/news/ootje-oxenaar-the-art-and-application-of-banknote-design

Good point, but I don’t think they put it there because of its function.

Thanks for sharing, i read someone earlier Russia did exactly this to a train station. Days before they accused Ukraine of having plans to bomb it (not sure why, but surely they made up something), then bombed it themselves. Though I forgot if they accused Ukraine of doing it or they switched their narrative. Point being, nice to have a word for things like that.

Edit: I wrote the comment above before opening the pdf and learning that the event is also covered in the report. What I wrote above isn’t the best summary (check the pdf if you want to know the details), but what is more relevant is this (also quoted from the pdf linked above):

Both Bellingcat and HRW have characterised the attack as a violation of the laws of war and an apparent war crime. Similarly, the Ukrainian NGO Media Initiative for Human Rights has classified the Kramatorsk attack as a war crime, emphasising that the targeting of a railway station with indiscriminate weapons during a civilian evacuation did not result in any discernible military advantage, but instead inflicted severe harm on the civilian population.