CyberWar game simulates healthcare attacks

Last week was rough for County West General Hospital. Its IT staff noticed almost immediately that the kickoff off round of FDA testing for a new drug from Bromley Weyland Pharmaceuticals appeared to be compromised. Patients in the study saw their monitor readings run the gambit of extremes. Worse, patient data was being changed as the worried IT staff monitored the critical situation. Someone had hacked into the hospital network and early indications were it was an inside job. Fortunately, it was just a simulation at a fictional healthcare facility and the ten teams hacking into the live network were all Symantec employees who had won the right to be a part of the company's three-day 2015 CyberWar Games held in Mountain View, CA.