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On 12/05/17 17:41, daniel Phillips wrote: > Will this malware remove all patient details and personal > information? Quite a worrying scenario!! I assume information is > backed up...should have switched to Linux, I feel along time ago. You must be joking... I've heard from some ex-colleagues at Kings who are currently fielding this and whilst it is certainly bad, this is "just" your usual bog standard crappy ransomware that's finally snuck onto the corporate network and sabotaged a lot of the end user Windows boxes. NHS data security is basically non-existent and the firewalls are essentially sieves - consultants, doctors, staff and random visitors all BYOD and connect almost anything to the internal networks so this was inevitable. The vast majority of the really important stuff - patient notes, booking systems, etc are relics from the last century and run in off-site data centers on big iron: think AS400s, IBM Z series mainframes, HP-UX and the like. Whilst that does in itself cause serious issues there is literally zero chance of a clumsy Windows infection vector jumping operating systems and hardware architectures. On the other hand all email, groupware and daily use stuff like sharepoint and so on *does* run on badly maintained and very out of date Windows servers so the damage is going to be pretty catastrophic. Quite a lot of backup tapes are currently being ordered from Iron Mountain as we speak. Glad I don't work for the NHS any more... There are going to be a lot of bad days at the office for the IT staff there. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq