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cyberattact on NHS hospitals
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12th May 2017 4:54pm
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NHS has confirmed that a ransomware attack is responsible for major IT problems affecting hospitals across the country link
Last edited by eddtheduck; 12th May 2017 5:01pm. Reason: added link
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Re: cyberattact on NHS hospitals
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12th May 2017 6:19pm
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Lets hope they do a back up regularly. Had to laugh when I heard the news reporter say Doctors and nurses had even had to go back to using pen and paper!
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Re: cyberattact on NHS hospitals
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12th May 2017 10:09pm
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maybe this is why nhs trusts are still using unsupported windows xp-pcs LINK
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Re: cyberattact on NHS hospitals
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13th May 2017 1:25pm
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What has exacerbated ransomware is that many large organisations have coughed up the ransom, so encouraging it.
Every organisation should have backups, paying the pirates might be the cheapest solution but how long will it be before they make payments and the ransomware isn't unlocked as it could be a spoof or the ransom demands get bigger.
Giving into ransoms is creating a rod for your own back.
The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the s--- hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020
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Re: cyberattact on NHS hospitals
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13th May 2017 4:55pm
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Does closing down every night mean the computor slows up? The opposite, although a boot takes longer than a wake-up from standby, during the shutdown and boot-up stages there is some housekeeping done which will help prevent the computer slowing down. It pays to leave your computer running now and then as things like disk defragmentation, indexing and other background tidy-ups happen when the computer isn't being used.
The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the s--- hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill - Charles Caleb Colton
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Re: cyberattact on NHS hospitals
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14th May 2017 1:31am
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Re: cyberattact on NHS hospitals
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14th May 2017 9:48pm
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More to come apparently. This is what I've always said too reliant on technology. I know it's hard not too be in this day and age but there should be more written down on good old pen and paper. I always say that one of these days it will all go caput and people will be running around like crazy and everything will have to revert back just too survive.  I still don't have a mobile phone, I've lived this long without one I can happily live my full life out one, you see people with them glued to there ears or texting walking zombies or they start talking to themselves like someone from rainhill and now that school use iPad in some classrooms I feel in the next 30years no-one will know how to use a pen to write Tend to agree. Would anyone know how a manual filing system works ? It's truly not rocket science, but it was a back-up for when computers crashed ...and they did, but I dare say all that has been abolished now. There could be major problems if companies can't get at the accounts , who owes what etc., particularly when money transactions seem to be agreed in £millions these days. People will forget how to write, how to communicate, suffer from RSI, be fed complete rubbish and untruths, have huge inferiority complexes through lack of socialising . Their greatest friend will be their iphone or equivalent and looking at themselves in 'selfies' .
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Re: cyberattact on NHS hospitals
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14th May 2017 10:58pm
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Ha ! They are pretty quick at such an early age. Mini computers themselves, absorbing everything. That's a good reason I like watching little ones, just monitoring what and how they do things. Brilliant stuff !
That aside, I still think our natural skills enabling us to be social animals are being eroded, and rapidly.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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