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mirth

May 12, 2017, 11:11:36 AM
Major cyberattack ongoing against UK National Health Service

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/world/europe/uk-national-health-service-cyberattack.html
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bbmike

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May 12, 2017, 11:26:35 AM
Looks like it might be large than just the UK.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39901382
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mirth

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May 12, 2017, 11:28:01 AM
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

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Steelgrave

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May 12, 2017, 11:32:21 AM
 :o :o :o

bob48

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May 12, 2017, 11:39:16 AM
Bloody hell.
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#5
May 12, 2017, 12:11:32 PM
if only we had someone out there who wasn't in the Russians' pockets who could counter such an attack  ::)
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mirth

#6
May 12, 2017, 12:26:58 PM
Gee, if Hilly were President nothing bad would ever happen!
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

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mirth

#7
May 12, 2017, 01:07:54 PM
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

OJsDad

#8
May 12, 2017, 01:13:17 PM
Microsoft had released a patch for the vulnerability in March. 
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Marty Ward

#9
May 12, 2017, 01:51:40 PM
Hell the virus could have been on the systems for months before the attack was launched. The FBI has been telling businesses to pay the ransom.
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MikeGER

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May 12, 2017, 04:11:38 PM
well this is terror not a crime,
find out who did it with all agencies on board and send a (clandestine, as in Northern Ireland in the good ol'days) SAS detachment to take those out... and then report about it as a deterrent for any copycats.

Steelgrave

#11
May 12, 2017, 05:13:41 PM
I agree. The people who are doing this are terrorists. How long will it be before they take control of an electrical grid or the like and demand a ransom from a government? The fear of God and special ops needs to be put in them.

Staggerwing

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May 12, 2017, 07:56:50 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on May 12, 2017, 05:13:41 PM
I agree. The people who are doing this are terrorists. How long will it be before they take control of an electrical grid or the like and demand a ransom from a government? The fear of God and special ops needs to be put in them.

Then we will need to have assets in place in St Petersburg and Moscow to facilitate the strike because I'm certain that somehow this all comes back to the Vlad Squad.
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Steelgrave

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May 12, 2017, 08:55:37 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 12, 2017, 07:56:50 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on May 12, 2017, 05:13:41 PM
I agree. The people who are doing this are terrorists. How long will it be before they take control of an electrical grid or the like and demand a ransom from a government? The fear of God and special ops needs to be put in them.

Then we will need to have assets in place in St Petersburg and Moscow to facilitate the strike because I'm certain that somehow this all comes back to the Vlad Squad.

Good point and likely true.....

Marty Ward

#14
May 12, 2017, 09:19:03 PM
Russia, Ukraine and India were hit the hardest.
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