NHS Major 'Cyber Incident' Forces Hospitals To Use Pen and Paper (theregister.com) 10
The ongoing cybersecurity incident affecting a North West England NHS group has forced sites to fall back on pen-and-paper operations. From a report: The Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust updated its official line on the incident on Wednesday evening, revealing new details about the case, but remains coy about the true nature of the attack.
"After detecting suspicious activity, as a precaution, we isolated our systems to ensure that the problem did not spread. This resulted in some IT systems being offline," the updated statement said.
"We have reverted to our business continuity processes and are using paper rather than digital in the areas affected. We are working closely with the national cybersecurity services and we are planning to return to normal services at the earliest opportunity."
"After detecting suspicious activity, as a precaution, we isolated our systems to ensure that the problem did not spread. This resulted in some IT systems being offline," the updated statement said.
"We have reverted to our business continuity processes and are using paper rather than digital in the areas affected. We are working closely with the national cybersecurity services and we are planning to return to normal services at the earliest opportunity."
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I wonder why... https://www.thelancet.com/jour... [thelancet.com]
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I wonder why... https://www.thelancet.com/jour... [thelancet.com]
Yeah, but you figure that's a country that actually has had a national healthcare system for quite awhile and their conservatives are still trying to dismantle it. Could you imagine how it would go in the USA if we ever managed to pass some sort of healthcare-for-all bill? Heck, let's pretend it actually happened under Biden; it would be the first thing to go on the new administration's to-do list.
In order for socialized healthcare to work in a democracy, it needs to have an overwhelming mandate, otherwis
Re: The best heathcare in the world (Score:2)
What happened when they were hit by wannacry?
I actually worked cybersecurity for a very large US hospital provider for years and kept hearing about NHS getting slapped by this or that, and it always happened a few weeks or even months after we had already ensured that every last one of our systems was patched.
To the "we gone paperless" boasters (Score:3)
What did they expect (Score:2)
A large number of computers there are still running Windows XP on ancient hardware that was created before some of their employees were even born.
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A large number of computers there are still running Windows XP on ancient hardware that was created before some of their employees were even born.
I’m gonna laugh hard when the details of the hack emerge, and WinXP systems hardly got touched because even the hacking group didn’t think their shit was THAT old.