NHS services across England hit by IT failure, believed to be caused by a large-scale cyber attackhttp://bbc.in/2qArkdQ
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Take off the tin foil hat pal
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Likely due to human error. Would love to come and chat to you about this as unfortunately it's only on the increase.
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Probably not a targeted attack. These things are always doing the rounds. I bet NHS England users have r/w shared folders on common servers.
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Then the question is does the ranware effect the servers AND PC or are the servers safe. Hopefully they don't run windows server on those.
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It usually just spreads through all of the drives available to the local machine, and this would include writable shared folders on servers.
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If the folders are accessible and writable from the PC, then it doesn't matter if the servers are Windows, Mac, Linux or just NAS drives.
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Well this looks as if its simply generic ransomwear. (Nothing about it is simple) but it looks like any other ransomwear.
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That would be my guess.
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Run Linux on my system with Windows on a separate partition. Smug face. Then created auto-mounted ntfs shared data partion. Oops! Backups?
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There's always pressure to make things easier for your users, and widely shared drives with unrestricted write access are all too common.
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thats gotta be thousands of computers, hope the Police catch those responsible for such a heartless attack
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This means the rumour of my abnormally sized penis will become public

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Of course not, it's now encrypted!
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Sadly also no evidence patient data can be accessed (by those who need to!).
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How dare these 'people' hold the sick and infirm to ransom, honesty I despair about some members of this universe......
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who'd have thought that by putting data online it might be at risk...oh hang on a moment...
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Banks etc. should pay mass fines for doing nothing to combat Scammers who use phishing.. Couldn't just sell bogus coca cola
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