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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Ainsley Harriott
Microsoft have already patched this particular vunerability in a recent update. The NHS trusts haven't updated, so this ransomware has made it in.
I was all up to date when I noticed the problem but had no idea at the time it was the update, I was slagging my son in law off for making some dodgy xbox live connection and blaming him for it all. :hehe:
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Vimana.
Oooof! Jeez.. Thanks. :thumbup:
Pheew!
Must be hard going through life being a suck hole? Take my hat off to you.
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Mrs Steve R
I was all up to date when I noticed the problem but had no idea at the time it was the update, I was slagging my son in law off for making some dodgy xbox live connection and blaming him for it all. :hehe:
It was more likely to be caused by all your dodgy midget porn than your son's Xbox
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Ainsley Harriott
It was more likely to be caused by all your dodgy midget porn than your son's Xbox
:hehe: My worst nightmare.
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Mrs Steve R
I was all up to date when I noticed the problem but had no idea at the time it was the update, I was slagging my son in law off for making some dodgy xbox live connection and blaming him for it all. :hehe:
You'd have thought she would have learnt from her previous experience of making public accusations about innocent victims which proved to be totally false....:-) Hope you apologized to him, at least....
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Originally Posted by
Cyclops
You'd have thought she would have learnt from her previous experience of making public accusations about innocent victims which proved to be totally false....:-) Hope you apologized to him, at least....
:hehe: I publicly apologized to you and have said it loads of times since, what more do you want? :tongue:
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Mrs Steve R
:hehe: I publicly apologized to you and have said it loads of times since, what more do you want? :tongue:
Can I give that a little thought?
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
blue matt
I m sure you know what i mean
the NHS are not under a specific attack, the attackers did not set out to attack them
I understand what you're saying Matt.
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
J R Hartley
I understand what you're saying Matt.
:thumbup: cheers
as did the others :wave:
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
Scotland effected also, Wales and NI both fine
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Zenith
Scotland effected also, Wales and NI both fine
Jimmy Krankie in resistance meeting
They've got 50 primary schools holding reflective foil in the hope it deflects the virus
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
blue matt
:thumbup: cheers
as did the others :wave:
Course they did they think it's clever to put you down gang handed.
Weasels.
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Cyclops
Can I give that a little thought?
Give it a lot of thought if you like. :biggrin:
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Originally Posted by
blue matt
:thumbup: cheers
as did the others :wave:
:hehe:
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
When you think about it, the technological advances made in the past quarter of a century have been gigantic. Those of us old enough to remember what was considered cutting edge back in the early nineties can only shake our heads in wonderment at what's possible now. However, although humans have been responsible for creating the environment in which these amazing leaps forward have been achieved, I can't help thinking that our race is, if anything, regressing as all of the things that are supposed to improve the quality of our lives become taken for granted.
I say that in particular when it comes to things like morality, ordinary decency and ethics. That probably makes me sound like some sort of prude, but, increasingly, I look at some many facets of our existence today and think that the human race took a wrong turning somewhere around the end of the last century. There have always been financially greedy people around, but there's almost a greed is good culture these days which extends into so much of our lives in ways that stretch beyond the corporate and political spheres.
I see some in this thread have said that this cyber attack was not aimed at the NHS. Now, maybe I'm jumping to a wrong conclusion here and I apologise in advance to those involved if I am, but that sounds to me as if they are, if not condoning what happened yesterday, then implying at least that it's not as bad as has been made out.
My view is quite different to that - if there is any evidence that a single person died or will die as a result of how the NHS was effected yesterday, I hope the greedy bastards responsible are charged with murder if they are identified.
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
When you think about it, the technological advances made in the past quarter of a century have been gigantic. Those of us old enough to remember what was considered cutting edge back in the early nineties can only shake our heads in wonderment at what's possible now. However, although humans have been responsible for creating the environment in which these amazing leaps forward have been achieved, I can't help thinking that our race is, if anything, regressing as all of the things that are supposed to improve the quality of our lives become taken for granted.
I say that in particular when it comes to things like morality, ordinary decency and ethics. That probably makes me sound like some sort of prude, but, increasingly, I look at some many facets of our existence today and think that the human race took a wrong turning somewhere around the end of the last century. There have always been financially greedy people around, but there's almost a greed is good culture these days which extends into so much of our lives in ways that stretch beyond the corporate and political spheres.
I see some in this thread have said that this cyber attack was not aimed at the NHS. Now, maybe I'm jumping to a wrong conclusion here and I apologise in advance to those involved if I am, but that sounds to me as if they are, if not condoning what happened yesterday, then implying at least that it's not as bad as has been made out.
My view is quite different to that - if there is any evidence that a single person died or will die as a result of how the NHS was effected yesterday, I hope the greedy bastards responsible are charged with murder if they are identified.
Hear hear
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
blue matt
:thumbup: cheers
as did the others :wave:
You said:
"the NHS are not under a specific attack, the attackers did not set out to attack them"
Made no sense at the time. Makes a bit more sense now that the story has evolved ;)
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
When you think about it, the technological advances made in the past quarter of a century have been gigantic. Those of us old enough to remember what was considered cutting edge back in the early nineties can only shake our heads in wonderment at what's possible now. However, although humans have been responsible for creating the environment in which these amazing leaps forward have been achieved, I can't help thinking that our race is, if anything, regressing as all of the things that are supposed to improve the quality of our lives become taken for granted.
I say that in particular when it comes to things like morality, ordinary decency and ethics. That probably makes me sound like some sort of prude, but, increasingly, I look at some many facets of our existence today and think that the human race took a wrong turning somewhere around the end of the last century. There have always been financially greedy people around, but there's almost a greed is good culture these days which extends into so much of our lives in ways that stretch beyond the corporate and political spheres.
I see some in this thread have said that this cyber attack was not aimed at the NHS. Now, maybe I'm jumping to a wrong conclusion here and I apologise in advance to those involved if I am, but that sounds to me as if they are, if not condoning what happened yesterday, then implying at least that it's not as bad as has been made out.
My view is quite different to that - if there is any evidence that a single person died or will die as a result of how the NHS was effected yesterday, I hope the greedy bastards responsible are charged with murder if they are identified.
I think Blue Matt is correct. The NHS got "unlucky". But me saying that isn't implying it's any less serious.
The UK Government states, categorically, that it will pay no ransoms for victims of kidnap. The same policy should apply here, so it's up to the IT Crowd to fix it. I'm sure they can, if their network is being replicated and backed up.
However, once back up, the fallout will be a scam of internet sites visited by employees using NHS hardware. Any abuses are likely to be dealt with severely - even if they were not the cause of this incident.
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Vimana.
You said:
"the NHS are not under a specific attack, the attackers did not set out to attack them"
Made no sense at the time. Makes a bit more sense now that the story has evolved ;)
I thought it made perfect sense at the time.
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Vimana.
You said:
"the NHS are not under a specific attack, the attackers did not set out to attack them"
Made no sense at the time. Makes a bit more sense now that the story has evolved ;)
The story had evolved long before Matts comment. Give the guy a break ffs,
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
I've just smashed my computer up to be sure I don't get infected.
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
Microsoft have released a patch that will close off this weakness in XP
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
J R Hartley
The story had evolved long before Matts comment. Give the guy a break ffs,
feck me ! Behavioral advice from Polo :facepalm: :hehe:
Yeah sure I can do that. I know when I'm in the wrong and happy to admit it when I am - as Matt knows.
Perhaps you, Tandy and 'Kris' (sadly, still little better than a grudge-bearing pedant!) could chug on a bit of self-awareness and humility now and again :thumbup:
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
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Originally Posted by
Vimana.
feck me ! Behavioral advice from Polo :facepalm: :hehe:
Yeah sure I can do that. I know when I'm in the wrong and happy to admit it when I am - as Matt knows.
Perhaps you, Tandy and 'Kris' (sadly, still little better than a grudge-bearing pedant!) could chug on a bit of self-awareness and humility now and again :thumbup:
Will try my best
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Re: cyber attack on our health service and other countries
"decided not to extend a £5.5million one-year support deal with Microsoft for Windows XP. "
XP .. :ohwell:
There's no money for anything in the NHS nor Local Gov't.
Not going to get any better during the Brexit negotiation period either.
And after Brexit - none of us can know - yet.