NHS Cyber attack

The NSA supposedly had this exploit for some time, maybe years, but chose not to tell microsoft about it, but use it for their own nefarious purposes. Consequently, MS only recently became aware of it, and released a security patch for it in march.
It's not uncommon that big enterprises running ancient operating systems like XP will also fail to install the updates, hence being vulnerable to attacks in this way.

And to think the NSA wanted Apple to build a back door into Iphones

Apparently the Nissan Plant in sunderland is now been hit with it

It seems that Microsoft have released patches for out-of-suppoort software, such as XP, in addition to those released in March for current versions.

Microsoft releases #WannaCrypt protection for out-of-support products Windows XP, Windows 8, & Windows Server 2003

Why don't they just install McAfee or AVG

(13-05-2017 13:00 )Censorship :-( Wrote:  It seems that Microsoft have released patches for out-of-suppoort software, such as XP, in addition to those released in March for current versions.

Looking through some of the political tweets today, the government stopped funding XP support for it's systems in England 2 years ago.
But whether that's accurate for this case or just political spin or what, I don't know.

Example - https://twitter.com/LabourEoin/status/86...2837233664

"The road to Good Intentions be paved with Hell"

Proberly political spin. Labour has a fucking horrible track record in delivering NHS IT systems as well. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013...ystem-10bn

Mind you Amber Rudd pissed me of this morning saying I Think all NHS records are backed up. I think that should have been the first question you asked and if the answer was No then any one involved should be Jailed.

and the Scots Nats aint to Clever either http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14213..._by___50m/

(13-05-2017 13:05 )xJ4Kx Wrote:  Why don't they just install McAfee or AVG

Because the exploit is still there just need to rename the code to something else and change the code slightly

scary thing was this malware only used 4 out of 20 exploits the Leaked NSA code showed so could be a lot more to go

I wonder how many records could have been stolen with this along with personal details...

(13-05-2017 13:05 )xJ4Kx Wrote:  Why don't they just install McAfee or AVG

That wouldn't have worked. Most of the infected computers DID have antivirus.