DOTmed January 4, 2022
After a brief quiet period through the fall, the ransomware crisis is beginning to accelerate again in the aftermath of the Log4j security flaw that has left thousands of organizations and enterprises alarmingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. The healthcare sector, in particular, is among the most at risk – as highlighted by the HHS Cybersecurity Program’s official alert issued on Dec. 14:
“The exact extent to which Log4j is deployed throughout the health sector is unknown. It’s a common application, utilized by many enterprise and cloud applications including several large and well-known vendors. Therefore, it is highly likely that the health sector is impacted by this vulnerability, and possibly to a large-scale extent.”
In layman’s terms, consider the addition of Log4j...
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