NHS hit by cyberattack

[I1L2T3]

Hunt has to take the responsibility. The buck stops with him. Systems are clearly underinvested.

 

Notice what happened to the chairman of BT this week. Two major failures that he had nothing directly to do with resulted in his pay award being reduced from £5.3m to £1.3m

[dangerousedd]

sadly it encrypts your files in the background, then sends the keys to the attacker before deleting some of its own malware files before popping up the message telling you to pay the ransom.

 

this youtube video explains it :-

[Mikes10]

Does anybody know how the ransom malware encrypts files? Is it done by an external source or does it use windows built in encryption service?

 

This is a pretty good explanation on how RansomWare encrypts your computer:

 

https://www.carbonblack.com/2017/05/12/how-does-ransomware-work/

[banjodeano]

well, the Tories are making a right pigs ear of the NHS, the sooner they are gone the better

[dutch]

well, the Tories are making a right pigs ear of the NHS, the sooner they are gone the better

 

This would have happened no matter what party is in there although can understand your desires and effort to blame tories for it anyway.

[I1L2T3]

This would have happened no matter what party is in there although can understand your desires and effort to blame tories for it anyway.

 

You can't say that. For 7 of the 8 years the OS has been retired, the Tories have been in power.

 

It's their baby this one.

[Mikes10]

Apparently M$ have issued a patch for Xp:

 

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer-guidance-for-wannacrypt-attacks/

 

http://www.zdnet.com/article/wannacrypt-ransomware-microsoft-issues-patch-for-windows-xp-and-other-old-systems/

[hackey lad]

Hunt has to take the responsibility. The buck stops with him. Systems are clearly underinvested.

 

Notice what happened to the chairman of BT this week. Two major failures that he had nothing directly to do with resulted in his pay award being reduced from £5.3m to £1.3m

 

obviously its the governments fault that this attack is being felt in other countries too

[dutch]

You can't say that. For 7 of the 8 years the OS has been retired, the Tories have been in power.

 

It's their baby this one.

 

True about tories and budget. However Nissan computers also had same problem, its said hundred countries seen this cryptopoop.

[cgksheff]

You can take politics out of the equation.

 

Each NHS trust pays directors, including IT Directors a small fortune.

They have to acknowledge their incompetence.

 

Regardless of this sudden expanse of ransomware, it can only infect through negligence.