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Nhs Cyber Attack


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talking about it on LBC now, it sounds horrific.

 

If they catch whoever has done this, they should be executed

Be funny, if the hacker got over excited and his pre existing condition meant urgent medical attention was needed. But it was fucked up by a downed computer system.

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According to me sources it's coming from Russia. It's a ransomware attack that's indiscriminate, no idea how it's got onto NHS systems. It apparently exploits a vulnerability in Samba, which basically allows Windows to acccess Unix/Linux disks.

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According to me sources it's coming from Russia. It's a ransomware attack that's indiscriminate, no idea how it's got onto NHS systems. It apparently exploits a vulnerability in Samba, which basically allows Windows to acccess Unix/Linux disks.

Not a virus, then?

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Phone calls, hard copies of x rays they'll be able to see it out in the short term. Problem is if your hospital has gone to electronic records. That could be a real shitter. Interesting that it's not targeted they've just struck lucky.

 

Probably depends where dodgy e-mails have had enclosures opened.

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Low level untargetted crap - embarassing but unsurprising the NHS is badly managed enough to be vulnerable to this sort of nonsense. Assuming anyone in their IT teams knows what they're doing they'll be back up and running by tomorrow morning; hopefully not too many people are affected in the meantime.

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Work for IT at Blackpool NHS, going to be here all weekend and getting a shift patten for staff to hit the effected desktops while we see what damage been done to the servers.

We don't have XP here but it's hit hard

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I'm no tinfoil hat man but could this be the Russians sticking their beak into foreign elections yet again?

 

What with NHS funding being high on Corbyn's agenda

 

He would certainly be better for Russia with his anti war stance than TM

Doesn't explain telefonica being hit

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Work for IT at Blackpool NHS, going to be here all weekend and getting a shift patten for staff to hit the effected desktops while we see what damage been done to the servers.

We don't have XP here but it's hit hard

Not good enough Elson. Maaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrsssshhhh wants you up and running by tomorrow morning :-)

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