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Best mesh Wi-Fi systems of 2024

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Best Mesh Wi-Fi System: Quick Menu

The best mesh Wi-Fi systems can easily fill your entire home and even your backyard with a strong Wi-Fi signal while eliminating any Wi-Fi dead spots around your house.

Unlike a traditional router, mesh Wi-Fi systems use multiple nodes or satellites to create a single, seamless Wi-Fi network across your entire home. This means you won’t have to switch networks as you move throughout your home like you do with one of the best Wi-Fi extenders.

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Fulton County government systems still down due to cyberattack

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Many Fulton government systems in addition to the library’s public computers remained down following the weekend’s cyberattack. Phones at county offices are out and several offices — including elections, the tax commissioner, Superior Court clerk, county service centers and Probate Court service centers — are all closed.

Only satellite offices for license tag renewals are open, said county spokeswoman Jessica Corbitt. Tags can also be renewed at the automated kiosks in various locations. Courts are operating with “backup processes,” but online public functions aren’t working.

Matt Coggin is hoping he’s close to securing a liquor license for the Roswell Road location of his DBA Barbecue.

“I’m supposed to go before the liquor review board Monday or Tuesday,” said Coggin, who’s been following coverage of Fulton County’s digital woes. “I’m scared, but I’m going to keep my fingers crossed. We’re kind of near the end.”

DBA already operates a Virginia-Highland location and Coggin is hopeful the tech wreck will be over quickly.

“I’m optimistic this will all be cleared up soon,” he said. “I’m feeling lucky.”

Matt Coggin.

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Few details have been released about the attack. Many county offices were closed Monday, when County Commission Chair Robb Pitts confirmed there had been a “cybersecurity incident” over the weekend. He said he didn’t know when county functions would be restored.

“At this time we are not aware of any transfer of sensitive information about Fulton County citizens or employees,” Pitts said.

Law enforcement is investigating, and county officials don’t expect to release much more information while that continues.

The lack of details released so far makes it hard to tell the scope and effects of the attack, said cybersecurity expert Brendan Saltaformaggio, associate professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity & Privacy.

“I really would encourage Fulton to get that information out to the public as quickly as they can,” he said.

What stands out to Saltaformaggio so far is the “big spread of systems” that were affected. That could be due to one very broad-based attack or several small ones,…

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Water services giant Veolia says ransomware attack impacted its North American backend systems – TEISS

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Water services giant Veolia says ransomware attack impacted its North American backend systems  TEISS

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Cyber attacks are one of the biggest threats facing healthcare systems

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An increase in cyber attacks on the healthcare sector is jeopardising patient safety, and prompting some governments to publish new cyber security standards.

Publicly disclosed global cyber security breaches between January and September last year showed that the healthcare sector suffered more attacks (241) than any other sector, ahead of government (147), and information technology including software, hardware and IT services (91), according to research by Omdia, a technology research provider.

The most common type of cyber breach in healthcare was hacking, followed by supply chain attacks, “phishing” (where cyber criminals pose as legitimate organisations to trick people into disclosing passwords and payment details), and “ransomware”, in which hackers use malicious software — “malware” — to encrypt data until the victim pays a ransom to unlock it.

“The healthcare sector is such a tempting target [for cyber security criminals] because . . . you can put lives at risk,” says James Lewis, a cyber security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a US think-tank.

The UK’s National Health Service has been hit by significant ransomware attacks. In 2017, the “WannaCry” attack is estimated to have cost the NHS £92mn and caused the cancellation of 19,000 patient appointments. Another hacking, in 2022, took down the non-emergency 111 service, and disrupted management systems for mental health services and emergency prescriptions.

Cyber attacks on hospitals in Germany and the US have also disabled their systems — forcing them to reschedule some procedures and temporarily divert patients to other facilities until the systems were brought back online.

And, in another case, in Finland, the confidential records of thousands of psychotherapy patients were hacked and leaked online — with others blackmailed to keep the data private, according to reports in the national media.

“Almost every hospital CEO I speak to . . . now [says] that cyber risk is their number one or number two enterprise risk issue,” says John Riggi, national adviser for cyber security and risk at the American Hospital Association (AHA), which…

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