Lessons from last week’s cyberattack

Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by codedokode on Sunday May 14, 2017 @07:59PM (#14338201)

Maybe they should not have connected all of the computers across the country into a single network.

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by driverdan on Sunday May 14, 2017 @08:10PM (#14338243)

Maybe they should have kept their systems up to date instead of running XP.

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by setq on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:10AM (#14339485)

This affected all versions of windows, not just XP. You're right about the updates though.

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by setq on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:09AM (#14339480)

It's not actually like that. They have a heavily restricted backbone and lots of little isolated networks hanging off it. This is lots of independent cases of idiocy causing infection.

Policy controls, poor patching and user education are the root cause of the NHS problems.

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