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2017-05-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Hospital computers across England shut down by cyberattack, hackers demanding ransom

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Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-12 11:54|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 How the hell did their IT let this happen? At the hospital I worked at, we had honeypots that the virus tried to write to so we could stop it. And even if it got to the other file shares, it was backed up every hour so we only lost a few minutes of data.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-12 14:55|| 2017-05-12 14:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Same story, some come in thru Vendor services...lab equipment, PET/MRI/CT sophisticated imaging, etc. Some still on XP because the programmers that wrote the vendor's control code left and nobody knows how to upgrade it. Others condemned to combat zero day exploits because the vendors can't/won't provide timely security patches.

Seimens PET scanners I have known were Ghosted nightly to flush the days collection of exploits.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-12 15:53|| 2017-05-12 15:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Treating their IT like their patients. What'a surprise.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-05-12 15:56|| 2017-05-12 15:56|| Front Page Top

#4 The fact they are still using XP shows they earned this ass raping.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-12 16:13|| 2017-05-12 16:13|| Front Page Top

#5 RT is the source here and their web site always seems so sketchy to me that I went to Drudge. Here is what I found:

LEAKED NSA MALWARE IS HELPING HIJACK COMPUTERS AROUND THE WORLD

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-12 18:08|| 2017-05-12 18:08|| Front Page Top

#6 But, yeah, if UK NHS is using any kind of Microsoft product at all somebody needs to be sacked. Sounds like somebody needs to be sacked anyway. This is just negligence.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-12 18:10|| 2017-05-12 18:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Also:

Massive 'WannaCry' cyberattack hits countries around world, cripples British health system

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-12 18:12|| 2017-05-12 18:12|| Front Page Top

#8 And Moscow Police department, FEDEX, and many many more.
Thanks NSA!

Posted by newc 2017-05-12 18:20|| 2017-05-12 18:20|| Front Page Top

#9 When W7 came into use, the British Gov and the Bank of England entered into a maintenance agreement with MS to provide continued support updates for XP for the sum of approx 1.1 mil Euro monthly. They had too many licenses to even contemplate upgrading.
Remember reading about it in the Economist.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-05-12 18:39|| 2017-05-12 18:39|| Front Page Top

#10 I just mirrored my main drive & I'm now backing up my data drive. Once I do those things, I disconnect the mirrored drive (power & data cables) and shut off the enclosure that has the backed up data drive. I'd suggest everybody do something similar and prepare for the worst, if you haven't done so already, in case IP addresses in the US are next.

Posted by Raj 2017-05-12 18:46|| 2017-05-12 18:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Good idea, Raj. You could even use one of those little thumb drives these days. Some of them will hold 32 or even 64 GB. That's a lot of data. You back up your files, eject the drive and put it on a shelf. Now, let's see, I probably have one of them laying around here somewhere...

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-12 19:24|| 2017-05-12 19:24|| Front Page Top

#12 my latest 64GB USB drive was, like $35 at Frye's. Make sure you AV scan it as well....

Posted by Frank G 2017-05-12 20:24|| 2017-05-12 20:24|| Front Page Top

#13 If government can get into systems, then so can everyone else.

Posted by Thravimp Lover of the Antelope7006 2017-05-12 23:32|| 2017-05-12 23:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Ransomware attacks courtesy of Wikileaks' latest file dump. Idiots.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-12 23:42|| 2017-05-12 23:42|| Front Page Top

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