Good morning class, 

     I will be talking about the Australian health insurance company that was held for ransom in late 2022. In reading two articles about the incident, I have found there was no alternative motive from the hacker other than asking for $10 million to stop releasing personal medical records of millions of customers to the public and dark web. These records contained the customers names, birthdates and passport numbers. The hacker also had records of high-profile customers who are suspected to be amongst Australian government lawmakers. The hacker had also made a claim stating they have information to decrypt and access customer credit cards. Medibank CEO David Koczkar had a conversation with the intruder in regards to the credit cards claiming no credit card details have been accessed.

     A month after the first article of the ransom attack was published in November 9, 2022 a second article from the same website was published December 1, 2022. This second article stated that there hasn’t been any further threats to Medibank. Medibank refused to pay the ransom of $10 million which then dropped to $9.7 million, who went on record to say, “We believe there is only a limited chance paying a ransom would ensure the return of our customers’ data and prevent it from being published.” The articles do not state who made the decision to not pay the ransom and the reasoning behind it however it is safe to assume it was CEO of Medibank David Koczkar’s decision. Staying true to the definition of ethical, Medibank decided to not pay the ransom as there was no guarantee the customers records would stop being released after potential payment. It is more of a logical reason to refuse payment of the ransom rather than a question of morals.  

     What could have prevented this attack is routinely updating the company’s systems and softwares, implementing an intrusion detection system and ensuring your IT security team is trained on these systems and softwares. The absence of these preventative actions may very well be the cause of the cyber attack. Since the ransom attack Medibank has added two-factor authentication to their softwares for customer and issued cautionary warning of the attack and recommended ways to keep their account information safe. What also happened was the Office of Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) initiated an investigation as to how Medibank handles their customers personal records and if the company has taken reasonable actions to prevent future cyber intrusions. This is important because Medibank can’t be held financially liable for the number of cyber attacks the company has had as it could be seen as negligence for their cyber security. – David Santana

References:

• Page, C. (2022, November 9). Medibank breach: Hackers start leaking health data after ransomware attack. TechCrunch. Retrieved April 24, 2023, from https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/09/medibank-ransomware-leak/ 
• Page, C. (2022, December 1). Medibank hackers declare ‘Case closed’ as trove of stolen data is released.   TechCrunch. Retrieved April 24, 2023, from https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/medibank-case-closed-stolen-data-released/ 
• Internet Security, C. F. (2021, July 15). 7 steps to help prevent & limit the impact of Ransomware. CIS. Retrieved April 24, 2023, from https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/7-steps-to-help-prevent-limit-the-impact-of-ransomware 

I have to do this work, which is the first draft of the informative investigation. My topic is social media

I have already done several works for this class on this topic; I can send them to you so that you can see more or less what it is about and what approach it has

The first image is the assignment and the rest is the information that appears in the link that says “Informative Research Report”

Describe the format of the MMPI, describe at least 3 clinical scales, and describe at least 1 validity scale.   What information do these scales yield and how can they be interpreted?   What are some of the strengths of the MMPI as an assessment tool.  What are a few of the settings that the MMPI is used in?

2 paragraph 

What is the difference between an objective personality assessment and a “projective”, or performance-based assessment?  Describe some of the basic features of the Rorschach Inkblot test.  Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the MMPI as an assessment tool, versus the Rorschach Inkblot as an assessment tool.  What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of each?

2paragraphs 

Frames and Chasis

Using your problem statement and SAE’s website locate 3 relevant SAE papers for the project/system.  Cut and paste the paper number, title, and description into a word document.

Using the Internet/Library etc., find 5 more quality relevant sources to help with your research.  These can be papers, articles, books etc.  In the same word doc as above, provide the title, description of the source and where I could find this source ie web link, library etc.     

The research topic, problem statement and sources are due 3/28/23 at 10am – printed out and brought to class.      

Finally, write a 5 page research paper on the project/ topic/ system that you have formulated your problem statement on.  The paper needs to be in SAE format which a template can be downloaded from SAE’s website. https://www.sae.org/participate/volunteer/author/event-paper-process.      

The paper needs to be at least 5 pages of body text and needs to contain a reference section which is not part of the 5 pages of body text.  Appendixes are optional but always help.  Please do not play around with the text size or margins in the SAE format.  Doing so will lower your grade since you won’t be following their format.

I have attached the template on how you have to write the paper.