An Atlanta tech company's former COO has pleaded guilty to a 2018 incident in which he deliberately launched online attacks on two hospitals, later citing the incidents in sales pitches.
Under a plea deal he signed last week, Vikas Singla, a former business leader at network security vendor Securolytics – a provider to healthcare institutions, among others – admitted that in September 2018 he rendered the Ascom phone system of Gwinnett Medical Center inoperable.
...After all of the events had transpired, Securolytics began emailing potential clients regarding new business opportunities, citing the publicized attacks.
Quis custodiet ipsoes custodes, indeed.
Jeebus. That's like burglarizing a place and then coming back to sell an alarm system.
ReplyDelete(Maybe that's why Simply Safe dropped Robbert as a spokesman.)
WaitaMinnitt nere,,,wouldn't that be a bit like robbing someone, tossing the gun and cash on the bed,taking a selfie and posting it on FB??I thought only Valedictorians did that.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness no one making medicine ever thought of this tactic.
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ReplyDelete+1 on Fred...sigh
ReplyDeleteSorta sounds like a variant of the protection scheme..
ReplyDeleteShame if your place got robbed.. We can prevent that.
Hope the sentence is long.
Eck!
Yeah, well, the SoB is basically going to get away with it:
ReplyDelete"He has now agreed to pay over $817,000 plus interest in restitution to the Northside Hospital Gwinnett in Lawrenceville and the Ace American Insurance Company as part of the plea deal.
The prosecutors will recommend a sentence of 57 months probation, including home detention, based on Singla being diagnosed with "a rare and incurable form of cancer" and "a potentially dangerous vascular condition," which warrant "home detention as an alternative to incarceration" so that the defendant can receive appropriate medical care.
The judge can impose a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years during the sentencing hearing scheduled for February 15, 2024." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cybersecurity-firm-executive-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-hospitals/
Sounds typical of the way things are done in their native sub continent.
ReplyDeleteSounds like government SOP to me.
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