Ireland's healthcare system under attack.

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From the Mail (sorry).


Ireland's healthcare system is currently paralysed with hospital appointments cancelled and Covid-19 testing disrupted as hackers carried out what could be the most significant cyber crime in the history of the state.

The country's health service operator was forced to shut down all its IT systems on Friday to protect them from the crippling ransomware attack.

An international cyber crime gang was behind the attack on the Health Service Executive (HSE), Ireland's minister responsible for e-government said, as officials are still waiting for the ransom demand.

Ireland shuts down health IT system after ransomware attack

Irish hospitals were reduced to pen and paper operations Thursday after the ransomware attack - believed to be by a Russian gang - forced the HSE to shut down major IT systems to protect them.

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What utter fucking scum.

 

[Badgers]

What utter fucking scum.

No worse (in fact better) than what the Tory Scum are doing to the NHS as you well know. Anyone voting for those cunts has blood all over their hands.

 

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No worse (in fact better) than what the Tory Scum are doing to the NHS as you well know. Anyone voting for those cunts has blood all over their hands.

Oh really. You equate voting for the Conservatives with shutting down a countries health service IT systems?

What a strange and rather unpleasant place the inside of your head is.

 

[Badgers]

#ToryScum

 

[Sasaferrato]

#ToryScum

#Impotentsocialistwankstain.

 

[souljacker]

All ransomware has to find an attack vector somehow and in this case, the attack vector is something that should have been patched. Security teams were warning about the Conti ransomware in February so the Irish Health Service had plenty of time to patch stuff. However, in the same way WannaCry exploited the NHS being cheap with having loads of unpatched Windows XP machines on their network, this is an attack that wouldn't have happened if money had been spent on IT.

I'd like to believe that these sort of attacks would become less likely as organisations get wise to it and implement proper security policies to stop it happening but they won't. I bet a million bitcoin that there are still unpatched Windows XP machines on the NHS network 4 years on.

 

[Badgers]

At least ransomware is good old fashioned crime.

Our Scum Government are 'protecting the NHS by selling it off to their mates overseas. Anyone voting for or apologising for their crimes has blood all over their hands.

 

[Sasaferrato]

All ransomware has to find an attack vector somehow and in this case, the attack vector is something that should have been patched. Security teams were warning about the Conti ransomware in February so the Irish Health Service had plenty of time to patch stuff. However, in the same way WannaCry exploited the NHS being cheap with having loads of unpatched Windows XP machines on their network, this is an attack that wouldn't have happened if money had been spent on IT.

I'd like to believe that these sort of attacks would become less likely as organisations get wise to it and implement proper security policies to stop it happening but they won't. I bet a million bitcoin that there are still unpatched Windows XP machines on the NHS network 4 years on.

Surely the most false of false economies? Even if they pay a ransom, there is no guarantee that the systems will be 'freed'.

The worlds dependency on Microsoft is really coming home to roost.

 

[Sasaferrato]

At least ransomware is good old fashioned crime.

Our Scum Government are 'protecting the NHS by selling it off to their mates overseas. Anyone voting for or apologising for their crimes has blood all over their hands.

Drunk? Or just a complete clown?

 

[Badgers]

Drunk? Or just a complete clown?

I don't vote for Tory Scum.

What point are you making?

 

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[souljacker]

Surely the most false of false economies? Even if they pay a ransom, there is no guarantee that the systems will be 'freed'.

The worlds dependency on Microsoft is really coming home to roost.

To be fair to Microsoft, the WannaCry attack was against something that MS had issued a patch for. The failure is in the NHS IT not having the budget to patch (which is wholly down to tory spending cuts and outsourcing). This attack in Ireland is also being reported as an attack on Cobalt Strike beacons so nowt to do with MS.