NHS workers and patients on how cyber-attack has affected them

[livingston]

NHS workers and patients on how cyber-attack has affected them

Officials have claimed in the wake of the global ransomware attack that patient care has been unaffected despite 45 NHS sites being hit.

But hospitals across England and Scotland were forced to cancel routine procedures and divert emergency cases in the wake of the attack, which has shut down access to computers in almost 100 countries. Here, patients and NHS workers reveal how the crisis has affected them.

NHS workers and patients on how cyber-attack has affected them

 

[Catskillkid]

And socialized medicine will lead to more networks and more linkages and more interconnections. In some cases that's good (doctors from various groups/departments being able to see your electronic records) but when it comes to cyber security it's not such a good thing.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Pistol Permit Database

 

[livingston]

Bank of China ATMs Go Dark As Ransomware Attack Cripples China
In the aftermath of the global WannaCry ransomware attack, which has spread around the globe like wildfire, a significant number of corporations and public services have found their infrastructure grinding to a halt, unable to operate with unprotected if mission-critical computers taken offline indefinitely. Some of the more prominent examples so far include:

• NHS: The British public health service - the world's fifth-largest employer, with 1.7 million staff - was badly hit, with interior minister Amber Rudd saying around 45 facilities were affected. Several were forced to cancel or delay treatment for patients.
• Germany's Deutsche Bahn national railway operator was affected, with information screens and ticket machines hit. Travelers tweeted pictures of hijacked departure boards showing the ransom demand instead of train times. But the company insisted that trains were running as normal.
• Renault: The French automobile giant was hit, forcing it to halt production at sites in France and its factory in Slovenia as part of measures to stop the spread of the virus.
• FedEx: The US package delivery group acknowledged it had been hit by malware and said it was "implementing remediation steps as quickly as possible." .
• Russian banks, ministries, railways: Russia's central bank was targeted, along with several government ministries and the railway system. The interior ministry said 1,000 of its computers were hit by a virus. Officials played down the incident, saying the attacks had been contained.
• Telefonica: The Spanish telephone giant said it was attacked but "the infected equipment is under control and being reinstalled," said Chema Alonso, the head of the company's cyber security unit and a former hacker.
• Sandvik: Computers handling both administration and production were hit in a number of countries where the company operates, with some production forced to stop. "In some cases the effects were small, in others they were a little larger," Head of External Communications Par Altan said.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-13/

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

This isn't going to just go away. These threats are only going to become more sophisticated and dangerous.

 

[livingston]

This isn't going to just go away. These threats are only going to become more sophisticated and dangerous.

Ransomware cyber-attack threat escalating - Europol
He told the BBC the act was "unprecedented in its scale" and warned more people could find themselves affected on Monday morning.

The virus took control of users' files, demanding payments; Russia and the UK were among the worst-hit countries.

Experts say another attack could be imminent and have warned people to ensure their security is up to date.

Mr Wainwright said that the ransomware - software that blocks access to data until a ransom is paid - was combined with a worm application - a program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.


This, he said, was allowing the "infection of one computer to quickly spread across the networks".

He added: "That's why we're seeing these numbers increasing all the time."

'Patch before Monday'
Although a temporary fix earlier slowed the infection rate, the attackers had now released a new version of the ransomware, he said.