Nhs network security

Le_Kirk

DavidP24 wrote: »

There are a lot of assumptions here but also some "deja vu" (explained later).

Shouldn't that be explained earlier!!!!

Frozen_up_north

DavidP24 wrote: »

the NHS started paying Microsoft £5m a year for extended XP Support.

And Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt cancelled it in 2015 as a cost-saving measure

kwikbreaks

A rather depressing but I doubt especially surprising for anybody here insight into the state of IT in the NHS. I seriously doubt any other government departments IT is any better. Come to that most corporates I had anything to do with ran their networks on a wing and a prayer.

Is there anywhere with good secure IT?

unforeseen

But that comment can be applied to thousands of companies throughout the world that have been hit by this.

As a matter of interest it was only some of the trusts that have been affected. The majority were protected and not affected. 24 out of 136 trusts are affected or shut their systems down as a precaution

No NHS Wales trust was affected and none in Scotland reported

woody2234

Luckily I updated my windows 7 PC on 19th March 2017 and now updating today and using Avast antivirus and Chrome browser also I found this info today see below

1 Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended on January 13, 2015. This means that no new Service Packs are coming for Windows 7, and no new features will be added to the operating system. It does not, however, mean that Microsoft is no longer patching the operating system.

2 Extended support is still ongoing until January 14, 2020. That’s the date Microsoft will stop issuing new security updates for Windows 7.

kwikbreaks

From that particular vulnerability yes but it seems many are still running a 17 year old version of Windows which has no regular routine support and doubtless umpteen other vulnerabilities waiting discovery and exploitation.

unforeseen

kwikbreaks wrote: »

From that particular vulnerability yes but it seems many are still running a 17 year old version of Windows which has no regular routine support and doubtless umpteen other vulnerabilities waiting discovery and exploitation.

Because there is too much reliant on that 17 year old system that cannot run on anything newer

woody2234

Can the NHS do a factory reset on there PCs ie long press the power button and press F5 or F8 or whichever F key like I can on my HP laptop, would that get rid of the ransomware

kwikbreaks

I'm guessing they'll almost certainly just restore them from standard images which amounts pretty much to the same thing.

DavidP24

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

And Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt cancelled it in 2015 as a cost-saving measure

Although that might not surprise me, I think you will find he devolved payment to the Trusts themselves.

Previously it was paid by a central purchasing authority that negotiate licenses for various parts of Government.

By moving it he made it look as if more was being spent on the NHS