NHS cyber attack ..

Fretwired

This is serious ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39899646

My local hospitals are not accepting any more patients and are in lock down.

guitarfishbay

It is serious and whoever is responsible for it is a serious bellend.

darthed1981

This is quite a big deal.

The NHS is one of the largest organisations in the world and you would expect it to be very well protected against what seems likely to turn out to be a truly enormous DDOS attack against them.  It must have targeted carefully selected crucial points in the network, DNS servers or data centres.

Expect a state involvement, probably Russia, you heard it here first!

BigBearKris

That's bad. I manage a residential care home and deal with dr's appointments and hospitals on daily basis. That can create havoc not to mention can have a massive influence on my residents wellbeing.

Fretwired

My local hospital is the Lister in Stevenage which is an excellent place - had over £500 million spent on new kit so it's reliant on IT systems and connectivity between medical kit and database systems. Taken my dad there a few times - you get scanned as you go into theatre etc, so I guess all this kit is down along with the phone system. Thinking about it the door systems may be buggered as they are security card swiped.

darthed1981

BigBearKris said:

That's bad. I manage a residential care home and deal with dr's appointments and hospitals on daily basis. That can create havoc not to mention can have a massive influence on my residents wellbeing.

I'm afraid to say its likely to cost lives.

Whoever is responsible (cough Russia cough) are a shower of c**ts

Blaendulais

Why Russia...why not IS?

darthed1981

Blaendulais said:

Why Russia...why not IS?

Resources - the NHS is a huge organisation and is likely very well protected ( though it may turn out not as well as it should be) I doubt IS could pull it off.

They seem to have done more than just DDOS as well, they seem to have gotten ransomware onto all the PCs - that is some clever attack for sure.

Fretwired

Isn't the new Cyber Agency of GCHQ supposed to protect the NHS? Ransomware doesn't sound like the Russians .. sounds like criminals.

octatonic

Just restore from a backup.

GavRichList

I work for university Hospitals Leicester. Thankfully we've not been affected. 

ICBM

If it was deliberately targetted, I'm betting that it will be politically motivated too - to damage the NHS in the run-up to a general election.

The question is which party will benefit, and how has whoever did this calculated that they will?

Or is it a more general attempt to cause fear and doubt, and if so who would that benefit?

Or am I too paranoid?

darthed1981

Fretwired said:

Isn't the new Cyber Agency of GCHQ supposed to protect the NHS? Ransomware doesn't sound like the Russians .. sounds like criminals.

Well, that would be what they want you to think

The ransomware is just damage I think, if you were a big criminal and genuinely wanted to rip off the NHS...

Firstly you are almost guaranteed to kill people, and there are softer targets, MI5 will be after these guys now

Secondly, why attack the desktops?  They likely do have data on them, but the really valuable stuff is in data centres, thats just damage.

Something really big for UK national security has happened here, I'm fascinated to find out what the full story is.

Fretwired

ICBM said:

If it was deliberately targetted, I'm betting that it will be politically motivated too - to damage the NHS in the run-up to a general election.

The question is which party will benefit, and how has whoever did this calculated that they will?

Or is it a more general attempt to cause fear and doubt, and if so who would that benefit?

Or am I too paranoid?

I think you're spot on .. too much of a coincidence.

Reverend

ICBM said:

If it was deliberately targetted, I'm betting that it will be politically motivated too - to damage the NHS in the run-up to a general election.

The question is which party will benefit, and how has whoever did this calculated that they will?

Or is it a more general attempt to cause fear and doubt, and if so who would that benefit?

Or am I too paranoid?

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/103578/lib-dems-you-got-my-vote#latest ahem

Fretwired

darthed1981 said:

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Something really big for UK national security has happened here, I'm fascinated to find out what the full story is.

Sadly I doubt we'll ever know. GCHQ and MI5 will restrict what we get told. I guess the perpetrators may surface on the net at some point if it's to make a political point.

Reverend

Fretwired said:

darthed1981 said:

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Something really big for UK national security has happened here, I'm fascinated to find out what the full story is.

Sadly I doubt we'll ever know. GCHQ and MI5 will restrict what we get told. I guess the perpetrators may surface on the net at some point if it's to make a political point.

or perhaps surface in a net?

ICBM

Reverend said:

ICBM said:

Or am I too paranoid?

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/103578/lib-dems-you-got-my-vote#latest ahem

lol

No, I don't do any of that .

bodhi

It's all over.

Fretwired

This guy is a doctor .. doesn't look good ...

Fretwired

New reports of attacks all over Europe ..