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• The new PoP will serve both enterprise and wholesale customers, taking advantage of the new subsea cables and landing points that have made Lisbon a natural interconnect point to the EU, Africa and Latin America, for high-speed connectivity and IP services.
• The new PoP will help bring the global Internet and Cloud Ecosystem to Portugal, ramping enterprise and wholesale customers directly onto Arelion's global AS1299 Internet Backbone .
• Arelion is committed to supporting this growth with resilient, high-capacity connectivity."
• The Lisbon PoP follows 17 new on-net PoPs added to the Arelion network since early 2023.

• With Medibank still fresh in our minds, the latest attack is on a Sydney-based cancer treatment facility, Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre in Westmead Hospital.
• The cyber criminal group Medusa claims to have stolen thousands of files and is holding them to ransom.
• However, the Medusa Blog offers free access to data stolen from previous victims who did not pay the ransom by the deadline.

Why target health services?

• While some cyber criminals have previously avoided schools and health-care organisations, it seems these are now fair game.
• Some notable incidents targeting the Australian health systems have included Medibank, Melbourne Heart Group and Eastern Health which operates four hospitals in Melbourne’s east – an attack which resulted in elective surgeries needing to be postponed.

What are the impacts?

• The health sector deals with our most private data – none of us want this data in criminal hands.
• Apart from the privacy issues, the inability to continue regular activities in any health-care facility poses life-threatening risks.

Why do they keep happening?

• While this growth in technology is a positive for health care, it exposes health systems to cyber criminals.
• With each passing year there is increased connectivity between clinical systems and medical devices.
• The health-care sector needs to be more staffed and heavily reliant on internet-connected systems also known as digital health.

Living with cyber criminals around us

• However, those who have examined the samples of data published on the Medusa Blog have suggested it seems genuine.
• Cyber crime has become a global industry with estimates predicting the impact at more than US$8 trillion in 2023.
• With such potentially lucrative benefits, we have to accept we will be sharing cyberspace with criminals for the foreseeable future.






And, finally, do not pay the ransom – it may be a difficult decision, but it only encourages the criminals behind the ransomware campaigns to keep going.

Read more:
Medibank won't pay hackers ransom. Is it the right choice?

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