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Hospital server hacked for CoD:BO (or, why gamers have a horrible rep)

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KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
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#26: Jan 14th 2011 at 8:33:55 AM

Yeah, I'm inclined to apply Hanlon's Razor to this unless someone comes in with more information. The articles don't say much more than "Hospital server hacked to play video game".

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
HellmanSabian Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
#28: Jan 14th 2011 at 3:01:45 PM

Humans truly are bastards indeed.

RocketDude Since: May, 2009
#29: Jan 14th 2011 at 3:10:38 PM

Wait, Black Ops has dedicated servers?

Joking aside, either the gamers were ridiculously bored and skilled, or the hospital made some weird decisions.

AllanAssiduity Since: Dec, 1969
MarkVonLewis Since: Jun, 2010
#31: Jan 14th 2011 at 3:31:01 PM

Great Odin's raven, man.... That's just asinine.

Neo_Crimson Your army sucks. from behind your lines. Since: Jan, 2001
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#32: Jan 14th 2011 at 3:31:59 PM

I don't want to go off on a Humans Are Bastards tangent just yet, or at all in fact because that's not how I roll, unless I know that these people actually knew what they were doing.

And like other people have said, if they could get in at all puts suspicion on the Hospital's security.

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Spirit Pretty flower from America Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
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#33: Jan 14th 2011 at 7:18:31 PM

That...I...wrong. Wrong I tell you.

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RocketScience Not dead yet. from a dark place Since: Jan, 2001
Not dead yet.
#34: Jan 15th 2011 at 12:10:28 AM

This is why we can't have nice things.

Electivirus Since: Jan, 2001
JackMackerel from SOME OBSCURE MEDIA Since: Jul, 2010
#37: Jan 15th 2011 at 2:03:28 AM

I... I find this hilarious and stupid on the hackers' parts.

Please kill me.

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#38: Jan 15th 2011 at 3:07:51 AM

"And remember kids, if your computer or server gets fucked by hackers, its your fault for not having enough security". Seriously, fuck the people who reason like that.

Ana Since: Jan, 2001
#39: Jan 15th 2011 at 4:56:22 AM

Yeah. We are not talking about a defaced website or a hijacked World Of Warcraft account and blame some poor, in terms of IT security uneducated user for the crimes of others. We are talking about a medical facility, a server hosting patient medical data and social security numbers - two among the top five of the most sensible personal information on the planet - and people, either employees of the hospital or an external IT consulter paid to secure those.

So, you've got assholes who broke into a medical server to host fucking CoD and you've got incompetent jokers who handled patient confidentiality with gross negligence. Not much point to play the blame game here; to badly translate an idiom, put them all together in a sack and smack it with a stick, you'll always hit the right one.

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InsanityAddict Bromantic Foil from Out of the Left Field Since: Oct, 2009
#41: Jan 15th 2011 at 7:49:52 AM

But, could the people in the hospital join in too? That would be at least somewhat redeeming.

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TheInferno |Y| = |X| Add 5 from probably on Earth Since: Jul, 2010
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#42: Jan 15th 2011 at 7:56:59 AM

The fact that those hackers used a medical server for playing Call of Duty is bad. I just don't understand how they got in. They have laws specifying certain levels of security on networks like that (HIPPA comes to mind).

Can I also add my support for that analogy?

EDIT AGAIN:

"And remember kids, if your computer or server gets fucked by hackers, its your fault for not having enough security". Seriously, fuck the people who reason like that.

Basically, this isn't a guy getting his home invaded and being told that he was at fault for not having a gun at hand at all times and a titanium door, this is a bank that got robbed and didn't notice until a week later. A lot more problem with the second then the first. The people in charge of securing these things actually have a level of security ascribed by the law. It might've been a zero-day attack, in which case they're screwed, but you would think a server like that would be behind multiple layers of security.

And I've edited this once again to clarify what I mean.

edited 15th Jan '11 8:17:01 AM by TheInferno

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Talby Since: Jun, 2009
#44: Jan 16th 2011 at 1:57:32 AM

Perhaps it will be revealed that the hackers were granting a cancer kid's last request to play a game of Call of Duty. Now who's the asshole, huh? HUH?

ABRICK Hiding a box of scraps from IN A CAVE! Since: Jul, 2010
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#46: Jan 16th 2011 at 2:29:13 AM

@Talby: the kid who decided "My final wish is more important than anyone else getting cured, and it's not like anyone wants the other cancer paitents to live, right?"

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Electivirus Since: Jan, 2001
#47: Jan 16th 2011 at 2:32:29 AM

Yeah, I hate that kid, too! Fuck that guy.

Fawriel Since: Jan, 2001
#48: Jan 16th 2011 at 2:43:24 AM

Not much point to play the blame game here; to badly translate an idiom, put them all together in a sack and smack it with a stick, you'll always hit the right one.
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mahel042 State-sponsored username from Stockholm,Sweden Since: Dec, 2009
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#49: Jan 16th 2011 at 3:09:47 AM

Re: Idiom What is it in the original german?

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MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#50: Jan 16th 2011 at 7:17:39 AM

"And remember kids, if your computer or server gets fucked by hackers, its your fault for not having enough security". Seriously, fuck the people who reason like that.

That's actually the truth though. Security is all about prevention, especially in computer security. You fail to have adequate security or forethought, you deserve to get hacked. Vulnerabilities and the tools to patch them up or secure them are not just to look shiny on an accounting report.

The only exceptions to this rule are day zero attacks.


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