Posted on 05/12/2017 8:22:33 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
The NHS has been hit by a major cyber attack, with hackers demanding a ransom.
Hospitals are understood to have lost the use of phonelines and computers, with some diverting all but emergency patients elsewhere.
At some hospitals patients are being told not to come to A&E with all non-urgent operations cancelled. (truncated due to copywrite restrictions)
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The US should offer a bounty for the heads of virus writers.
At what point will companies STOP outsourcing their IT to China, India and Russia? Cybersecurity is one area that pundits will never speak about truthfully. The fact is is that banks, governments, technology companies, etc. hire or use foreign programmers. Those programmers mostly come from the the three countries I mention. I used to work for one of the largest banks in the world. They entrusted most of their entire trading platform, business operations and commercial banking operations to Shanghai programmers who were not even employees. Why? Because a Shanghai computer contractor cost less than $20,000 a year rather than an American working out of the bank’s HQ in New York who cost at least $150,000. This is not a surprise, and my peers were concerned about what could happen. Management did not care. As with moslem terrorism, the powers that be have allowed it to get to where it is now.
And the general public must live with the ramifications.
Or, at least their fingers or hands.
I despise destructive hackers.
Love seeing people get screwed over in a big way by a vulnerability that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
It’s like the real world was never taken into account when they thought up the ‘lets create a single, massive point of failure’ idea.
It’s already hit here in DC about a year ago, MedStar.
The other scary aspect of this was many of the staff didn’t even know how to use paper! Young docs couldn’t write out prescriptions. I can’t believe these hospitals/corporations aren’t training their staff how to handle these kind of emergencies. How irresponsible!!!!!!!
It’s happening in Spain as well.
Management did care... but only about meeting cost targets, stock price targets, and performance bonuses.
AND a reward for constructive hackers- the ones who would discover such leaks and report them, BUT NOT exploit them.
Right now there is no benefit for finding them, that I am aware of-and so the only incentive is the hackers.
Every NHS failure will now be blamed on this attack and the only solution is more tax dollars.
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