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> I keep telling the IT people at my hospital to stop using SMS 2-factor and they blow me off and treat me like an idiot. Well... yeah. Nobody is sim swapping
by ryanlol 7y ago
> I keep telling the IT people at my hospital to stop using SMS 2-factor and they blow me off and treat me like an idiot.
Well... yeah. Nobody is sim swapping hospital staff.
It’s not great, but this isn’t a real threat they’re facing.
- Gatsky 7y agoThere are clearly targeted phishing attempts, I wouldn’t rule it out. Edit: I should add, I was very surprised when I got a phishing email sent by the obviously compromised email account of a colleague, and when I emailed them to say their email was hacked, the person who hacked them replied telling me everything was OK, and to open the attachment.
- ethbro 7y agoYou'd be surprised how much money flows through the medical system. And how much of that flows through automated systems. And how little of the total is actually audited on a detailed level.
- ryanlol 7y ago>You'd be surprised how much money flows through the medical system I wouldn’t, I just know that the crowd targeting hospitals for wire fraud is very different from the sim swappers. It’s possible that this may change at some point, but that hasn’t happened yet and probably isn’t going to. Phishing is so easy and successful that SIM swapping just doesn’t make sense for these targets.