Protect your family from cyber criminals: Cyber protection series: What do I do now that my personal health information has been breached? by Dr. Mike Bonnes

Author:Dr. Mike Bonnes [Bonnes, Dr. Mike]
Language: ita
Format: epub
Published: 2015-07-08T00:00:00+00:00

FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS ALLIED WITH CRIMINALS

The National research council in 1990 concluded the modern thief could steal more with a computer than a gun. This is fully apparent and realized today. This statement was made over 25 years ago and has stood the test of time. Medical data theft began with criminal organizations like the Russian crime organizations, for decades, extortion for money has been a powerful weapon for mafia criminals to shakedown lucrative businesses and underworld operations. Extortion's by Italian Mafia and their infamous threats of "pay and we will protect you" is what we were taught is the method criminal organizations operate. However, there is a new style of blackmail and it is not done by Italian Mafioso's wearing dark suits and glasses. This new style gangster involves extortion of companies that do business on the internet. With devious intent, dangerous cyber criminals whose intent is to destroy and hamper the growth of internet commerce carry out these brazen acts. One example of the criminal organizations is known as the Russian organized crime syndicate. In the United States, Russian organized crime syndicates are involved in long-established organized crime activities. These crime activities include white-collar criminal activities, money laundering, and computer crimes. These organized crime syndicates recruit computer programmer's right out of school, with the lure of money and training in Hacking. The crime syndicate provides training in hacking and provides hacking tools, which are on CDs containing updated information about hacking instructions and tool selection. Russian hackers prefer the CD, a Hacker’s Toolkit "Super-hacker ’99"; this program and many of the free programs available on the internet assists hackers to create their own viruses or generate credit card numbers. Many of the hacker tools include password crackers. From the Russian mafia to the Chinese triad, criminal organizations and governments are now working together to steal personal health information. Criminal organizations still work on their own in stealing patient health information. However, working with governments gives them a little more freedom to exercise their criminal activities. The hacking execution styles of the criminal organizations differ from government hacks. Many of the techniques used by cyber criminals destroys the data in a kind of smash and grab computer hack. However, the methodology used by foreign governments is unique in that once they get into the network they like to keep the connection alive so they can come back to the compromised network at will. This type of attack falls under Advance Persistent Threat. (APT) What is an advanced persistent threat? APT is a network attack in which a foreign government gains access to your health insurance carrier or hospital network and stays there undetected for a long period. (Usually malware controlled) stealing as much information out of the network as it can (sometimes controlling the network for years). The intention of an APT attack is to steal data rather than cause damage to the network or organization. When a government like China steals data, it is usually the information on the equipment and firmware of Health systems that they are stealing.

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