NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences

Re:NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences by empath75 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:03AM (#13541721)

This is a stupid headline. They're tripping the request limit from a single ip, which makes you fill out a captcha. We've been hit with that a few times where I work.

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Re:NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences by Symbiote on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:15AM (#13541896)

It's The Register, daft headlines is their style. They imitate the cheap, mass-market newspapers in the UK like The Sun or The Mirror.

The NHS is one of the world's largest employers. If all that traffic is behind a small range of IPs (one wouldn't be enough) I'm not surprised there are issues. It does seem an odd network design though.

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Re:NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences by lmm on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:59AM (#13542403)

> If all that traffic is behind a small range of IPs (one wouldn't be enough) I'm not surprised there are issues. It does seem an odd network design though.

"Plonk all our desktops behind a router, NAT the whole thing" isn't that unusual as a network design.

One would hope that the government in particular would be moving to IPv6 as the socially responsible thing to do.

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Re:NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences by Symbiote on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:31PM (#13542796)

It's a bit unusual for an organization with thousands of sites, spread across an entire country. I haven't checked, but it probably has a huge IPv4 allocation too.

I'd expect something more like the university networks.

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Re:NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences by Gigablah on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:09AM (#13541820)

This, plus the dodgy headlines about Google employees staging a "walkout" a few days ago. The state of news media is depressing.

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