Home
- Welcome to Over50sForum! The site for people over 50 to chat, make friends, discuss, share, and generally be part of something that's fun and friendly :)
Control Panel
- This is where you change your account settings. Here are some common links:
- Edit Options
- Change Email/Password
- Sponsorships
Your Profile
- Common settings:
- Upload Profile Photo
- Upload Pic in Posts (avatar)
- Upload Profile Album Photos
- Edit Profile Info
- Edit Friends List
Who's online
- See which other forum members are currently logged in to Over50sForum.com
Members
- View our member list!
New posts
- Recent thread activity:
- Posted in today
- Unread posts (all)
- Unread posts (excluding games/jokes section)
Search
- Choose from the following types of search:
- Site search
- Member search
- (Find your threads)
- (Your subscribed threads)

Nhs cyber attack!

Thread Tools

Page 3 of 10 < 1 2 3 4 5 > Last »

Tpin

Chatterbox

Joined: Jan 2016

Posts: 16,130

Tpin has posted at least 25 times and has been a member for 3 months or more

12-05-2017, 07:50 PM

Re: Nhs cyber attack!

Originally Posted by matchpoint ->

I'd assume that there are others too....
this seems on a blanket scale and computer networks are very big.

possibly a good idea to switch off computers for the rest of the day until more is known..

hackers will be up all weekend snooping on the computers... which are not turned off.

Hope they hack my bank account....they'll probably feel sorry for me and put some money IN

Barry64

New Member!

Wales UK

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 2

12-05-2017, 07:53 PM

Re: Nhs cyber attack!

I think the vermin that carried out this disgusting attack ought to traced and eradicated just like the vermin they are!

AnnieS

Chatterbox

United Kingdom

Joined: Jan 2017

Posts: 18,420

AnnieS has posted at least 25 times and has been a member for 3 months or more

12-05-2017, 07:54 PM

Re: Nhs cyber attack!

Originally Posted by matchpoint ->

A member of staff will be employed to keep the BACKUPs up-to-date. its likely they won't have a IT security expert on site.

In the worst case they need to roll-back to their last backup ... likely last night.
Then they can bring the systems online again.

My nephew used to work for one of the information management firms and large parts of the NHS were clients. So most hospitals should have data backed up securely off site and out of harm's way. This sort of attack might mess up that day's work but whenever I've been in a hospital they still keep paper notes in a file on the bed and paper files in cabinets or archives. I'm sure they have emergency measures they put in place for such an event.

Artangel

Chatterbox

Joined: Oct 2015

Posts: 21,097

Artangel has posted at least 25 times and has been a member for 3 months or more

12-05-2017, 07:54 PM

Re: Nhs cyber attack!

It was only last week that l picked up forms at my doctor's surgery to apply to make appointments and to access my medical record online.
I did feel a bit unsure about applying after l saw some of the questions re security of the information that l may view and download.
It didn't sound very safe, so l didn't bother to apply.

AnnieS

Chatterbox

United Kingdom

Joined: Jan 2017

Posts: 18,420

12-05-2017, 07:56 PM

Re: Nhs cyber attack!

Originally Posted by JBR ->

Along the same lines, I would have thought that the NHS would have kept its records on secure servers as well, although I suppose they could also be interfered with.

My nephew said the only way to access the secure servers is if you have a fire or explosion on the site. I think this happened a few years ago.

AnnieS

Chatterbox

United Kingdom

Joined: Jan 2017

Posts: 18,420

12-05-2017, 08:01 PM

Re: Nhs cyber attack!

Originally Posted by Artangel ->

I use my GP online system all the time. It's really handy for making appointments and viewing the results of tests. They don't seem to keep anything very personal on it. I opted out of sharing my medical data with other organisations but I'm always aware of the risk of not sharing as if you go to hospital unconscious it can help the paramedics etc.

mart

Chatterbox

South of England

Joined: Dec 2009

Posts: 6,151

mart has posted at least 25 times and has been a member for 3 months or more

12-05-2017, 08:16 PM

Re: Nhs cyber attack!

The hacking tool was leaked by a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, which has been dumping stolen N.S.A. hacking tools online beginning last year. Microsoft rolled out a patch for the vulnerability last March, but hackers took advantage of the fact that vulnerable targets — particularly hospitals — had yet to update their systems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/w...=top-news&_r=1

deylon

Fondly Remembered

Harrow,England

Joined: Jun 2015

Posts: 1,835

deylon has posted at least 25 times and has been a member for 3 months or more

12-05-2017, 08:26 PM

Re: Nhs cyber attack!

My prescription went missing, I ordered it last week but when I webt pick it up at the pharmacy tgey didnt have it.I hace re ordered on line as usual & a message says its been acceppted for pick up from the surgery