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> On 12 May 2017, at 18:17, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 12/05/17 17:41, daniel Phillips wrote: >> Will this malware remove all patient details and personal >> information? Quite a worrying scenario!! I assume information is >> backed up...should have switched to Linux, I feel along time ago. > > You must be joking... I've heard from some ex-colleagues at Kings who > are currently fielding this and whilst it is certainly bad, this is > "just" your usual bog standard crappy ransomware that's finally snuck > onto the corporate network and sabotaged a lot of the end user Windows > boxes. NHS data security is basically non-existent and the firewalls are > essentially sieves - consultants, doctors, staff and random visitors all > BYOD and connect almost anything to the internal networks so this was > inevitable. > > The vast majority of the really important stuff - patient notes, booking > systems, etc are relics from the last century and run in off-site data > centers on big iron: think AS400s, IBM Z series mainframes, HP-UX and > the like. Whilst that does in itself cause serious issues there is > literally zero chance of a clumsy Windows infection vector jumping > operating systems and hardware architectures. On the other hand all > email, groupware and daily use stuff like sharepoint and so on *does* > run on badly maintained and very out of date Windows servers so the > damage is going to be pretty catastrophic. Quite a lot of backup tapes > are currently being ordered from Iron Mountain as we speak. > > Glad I don't work for the NHS any more... There are going to be a lot of > bad days at the office for the IT staff there. its about time they got a rocket - its total incompetence to be running such a big org on NT/XP. they probably pay more in extended MS/HP support that they would to nip out to PC world for their licences. > > Cheers > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq