Cyber Criminals’ Next Deadly Target: Grandpa’s Pacemaker
By Tim Johnson

In Cyber Criminals’ Next Deadly Target: Grandpa’s Pacemaker By Tim Johnson builds an argument to persuade the audience that potential cyber attacks would have a negative impact on the healthcare sector. The author uses Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to strengthen the logic and persuasiveness of his argument. The author uses Ethos in a way to give a credibility to the audience how the cyber attack affects the healthcare. Cyber attacks are accelerating worldwide especially in the U.S. healthcare system to hack all the information to their patients. According to Chris Wysopal said that “Patient medical records are online”. That hacker can easily to hack all the medical records of the patients by cutting into the production of medicines that was given by that could trade any side effects to the patient's health. He also includes the doctors comments about this issues about what would be their opinion and what would be the causes of this cyber attacks in the healthcare system that can …show more content…
Expressing his thought and opinion about this issues. According to Dr. Christian Dameff “We’re going to have our digital D-Day, our cyber D-Day, if you will, in medical, and there’s going to be patients that die. It’s going to be a big deal” He’s expressing his feelings if this cyber D-Day would cause a death to the patients that would be a big deal. By hacking all of their medical records that are being connected to one system it would be a big problem. The author indicates that cyber attacks would be cybercriminals. Those hackers trying to get all of the information from the patient and they got caught they would be sent to the jail with the sentence of cybercriminals. Creating an emotion to his article would be able to give a connection to the