WCH specific
What are WCH's Password Requirements?
This App is used to protect your login credentials it runs on your phone and allows you to confirm you are the person logging in to your account.
What is the Microsoft Authenticator App?
This app enables multi factor authentication protection on your accounts and helps prevents malicious threats such as credential theft and phishing. It also prevents unauthorized logins. If you are still using a legacy type of MFA, please consider switching to the more secure Authenticator App.
This medical testing company suffered a data breach in 2019 that exposed the personal information of 15 million people in Ontario and B.C.
What is LifeLabs?
This 1983 movie starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy features a teenager who hacks into a military computer and almost starts a nuclear war.
What is War games?
This type of cyberattack involves sending fraudulent emails that appear to be from a trusted source to trick the recipient into revealing sensitive information or installing malware.
What is phishing?
-Never share your passwords with anyone (even the IT team)
-Never write down your password
-Use a complex passphrase
How can i protect my password?
This is the name of the technique that involves using a phrase or sentence as a password, such as "I love cheeseburgers".
What is a passphrase?
Passphrases provide a memorable way to create a long and complex password this helps prevent against attacks such as brute forcing.
This Toronto based giant whose work involves critical infrastructure was hit by a ransomware incident in March 2023.
What is Black & McDonald?
This 1995 movie starring Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam involves a woman who becomes a target after accidentally receiving a disk with sensitive information.
What is The Net?
This type of cyberattack involves exploiting a vulnerability in a software or system before the developer can fix it.
What is a zero-day attack?
Report the suspicious incident by Calling x4357 (H-E-L-P) or Emailing ServiceDesk@wchospital.ca
How to I report a security incident?
If you encounter a potential security incident (Phishing, account compromise, suspicous logins, suspicous computer behaviour, etc...) Please contact the service desk team to escalate the issue. Security is everyone's responsibility.
This is the type of plan that your organization should develop to address how to monitor, detect and respond to a ransomware incident, as well as how to communicate and recover from it.
What is an incident response plan?
A leading childrens hospital was hit by ransomware in December of 2022.
What is Sick Kids?
Sick Kids was running under Code Grey conditions for nearly 3 weeks.
This 1999 movie starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne depicts a dystopian world where humans are enslaved by machines and live in a simulated reality.
What is The Matrix?
This type of cyberattack involves flooding a server or network with more requests than it can handle, causing it to slow down or crash.
What is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack?
The training that the hospital provides to help you avoid falling victim to malicious activities such as phishing emails and infected downloads.
What is security awareness training?
WCH delivers Security Awareness Training quarterly to ensure that staff know how to avoid falling victim to malicious activities. Our security technology controls can only provide so much protection. We need your help to stay vigilante and avoid potential malicious activities that are able to bypass our technical controls.
This is the name of the feature that allows you to use your fingerprint, face, or voice to unlock your device or account
What is biometric authentication?
It provides a convenient way to authenticate with a device. It also protects information from device theft and credential theft.
This Canadian government website was temporarily shut down in 2017 after it was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack that prevented users from accessing its services such as applying for benefits or filing taxes.
This 2014 movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley tells the story of how Alan Turing and his team cracked the Enigma code during World War II.
What is The Imitation Game?
This type of cyberattack involves encrypting the victim's data and demanding a ransom for the decryption key.
What is a Ransomware Attack?
Everyone
This is the best practice to ensure that you have access to your critical data and systems in the event of a ransomware attack, by making copies of them and storing them offline or on a separate network.
What is backup?
It is critical to take backups of critical data and to test the ability to restore. Make sure the backups are also stored seperately from your production data either air-gapped or offline.
This financial company suffered an attack by a malicious insider in this data breach that affected roughly 10 million people in Canada in 2019.
What is Desjardins Group?
This 1992 movie starring Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier features a team of former hackers who are hired by the NSA to recover a stolen black box that can decrypt any code.
What is Sneakers
This type of cyberattack involves stealing or guessing the credentials of a legitimate user to gain unauthorized access to a system or network.
What is credential theft?