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Large-scale cyber attack on hospitals in England
Large-scale cyber attack on hospitals in England
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it will have precisely zero impact on the running of the hospitals.
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jeremy hunt gone missing in action
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Americans are a million miles ahead of us and their systems still get hacked.
Hackers would have got in regardless. (Win XP) The main problem is email and firewalls. |
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Forumites running XP or other unsupported versions can get the patch from Microsoft:
http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012598 The site is very slow. |
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how did so many computers become compromised
staff on facebook, in their free time ? |
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STRONG AND STABLE
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/26/uk-government-pcs-open-to-hackers-as-paid-windows-xp-support-ends The Government Digital Service will not extend its £5.5m deal with Microsoft to extend support for Windows XP, leaving government computers that still run on the obsolete operating system at risk from hackers. The service said ending the support meant “weaknesses that are found in unsupported products will remain unpatched and will be exploitable by relatively low-skilled attackers”. |
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Though this just made me laugh
https://twitter.com/the_awakend/status/863343275675090944 |
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What about this for coincidence
On Wednesday I work for a small firm and we decided to scrap our 3rd party SCREENING email service Basically because they upped their charges from £5 to £100 a MONTH I noted in the days before a lot of erroneouse FedEx messages saying you had a package I resisted opening the email I now notice FedEx is one of the companies compromised wouldn't SURPISE ME IF THIS is the culprit for this worldwide virus Hospitals would normally expect to receive packages  |
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Be plenty of well paid overtime for IT staff this weekend .
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Although holding individuals and corps hostage through these malevolent acts look about as low as you can go its only the end result of the 'development' of the human. Its so endemic in society that you cant get rid of opportunism, from footballers cheating refs to insurance companies finding ways to not pay out claims or a myriad of corporate/political double faced wrongness in between.
These hackers certainly arnt the first to ride the fook out of the NHS, private companies and pharmas do it daily and to much greater extent. |
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Suggestion today that a weakness in the operating system that was being used by the CIA was identified within the Wikileaks dump in recent years,reportedly up to 70 countries have been effected. Either an attempt to shift blame or a genuine blood on their hands responsibility due to Wikileaks behaviour,choose your victim according to your politics.
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No mention yet from the media ...of Putin or Trump "allegedly" being involved ..
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i have had no virus protection ever. it's a con. a good firewall and not going to weird sites is a must. I always backup. once a week. If i work in a vital document I backup to a usb dongle.
the NHS are clicking on advert pop ups? how the Fk? it should all be hospital business.???? surely a closed system. everyone should have a copy of their own files. If the doctors don't want you to view your own files? a pin release on it. backups on HD and other media. Why are CT scanners linked to the internet? this is baffling BS. you could have your records on a dongle/thumb drive on your keys or dogtag. All of this panic is leading up to subdermal implants - to scan the patient like a pet. they have it now for soldiers going into combat in teh USA. the Germans had a tattoo given during ww2 - bloodtype. |
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FS it's not like the person operating the scanner is surfing hot-asian-trojans.com.
It's one of the nasty ones that once it gets on a network once it'll infect everything it sees, then they'll infect everything they see, and so on down the line. Nobody has to do anything as it uses a weakness in a standard network thingy. Of course the CS scanner controller is likely to be on a network, otherwise they'd be like transferring data via floppies or USB dongles all day. And how is having totally free good virus protection a con?? |
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the guys making the anti virus software used to be on the other side of the fence.
they leave holes in the OS deliberately. To allow security services in. the software for this attack was taken from the security services. It's all a joke. Is there a safe operating system - no. They won't allow it. It's in their own interest to make updates and patches. It's a needful thing. that needs to be petted and massaged to work right. Is there a computer out there that works without a fist to the screen. |
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All the chaos and they've only made $26,000 from it
 http://gizmodo.com/hackers-behind-massive-ransomware-have-made-an-embarras-1795195644 |
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this is turning into a thing - next step is they curtail some freedom we have. or give us chip implants. It's leading somewhere. it's a minor blip. If your files are backed up - you go to a disc or some other media. this should not be an issue.
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Ovalman. 12 May 17 20:18
what was wrong with paper. My wife has a lump in her leg and it's growing. Letter was sent in January, not received, letter sent in March, not received last letter was sent last Month, it was received as it was sent registered post but she's still waiting on a date for a scan. A simple Email sent at the end of January would have cured the whole problem. Why in this day and age a Doctor has to send a letter is beyond me. There's a lot of red tape that's costing billions, I reckon the NHS still use letters to keep the Royal Mail in business. I queried a missing appointment letter with my hospital lately. The person I spoke to confirmed they had been having a lot of issues lately, because they now outsource the sending of appointment letters !!! |
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The Leopard 12 May 17 22:09
May desperate to declare it an International attack....."we're not at fault" That's not what Jeremy Hunt states .......oh ,hang on....Hunt hasn't said a dicky bird, he's mightily conspicuous by his absence!!!! Where is he - what's the story behind his ' show ' ? Perhaps ( we can hope), he's been sacrificed by May, and has been sacked |
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* ' no show '
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Microsoft have stated, that in light of these recent cyberattacks. All users of non supported Windows XP , will be sent the latest security update free of charge.
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where have you seen this Facts?
Have they also said they will therefore now do the same for new processors using anything other than win10? If they will then Ill swap back to the kabylake I have in a box doing nowt since I replaced it with a lesser Skylake 6th gen processor instead of bending to their spying will and moving to win10 |
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A cringeworthy response from Amber Rudd (scroll down a bit), these people are in charge.
http://news.sky.com/story/europol-warns-of-further-cyberattacks-on-monday-morning-10876985 |