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Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA
Zolzar writes "Looks like the Md. State Motor Vehicles Administration is the first government agency reporting a failure of their systems due to the recent virus." This is a more specific story about the outage. And the city of Philadelphia has suffered as well.
skyne -i mean ms is upon us
You mean "city" like Munich?
Another former hospital employee here. I'm not sure of the current status, but it was one of the top five in the USA back when I was there, and Windows was everywhere as was internet access. We had antivirus software running every night and still managed to get hit by virus or worms every now and then. Things would get bad, but not life and death when Windows started hacking and coughing. It would take forever to admit or discharge patients, delevery of their drugs would often take untill the system came back up or a nurse went down to the pharmacy to get the drugs (and even then things were delayed because allergy information was stored in, yes, the computer).
Email was the absolute worst part. It was pretty much standard in most departments I saw for people to use their work email address as just another location for private emails, and the junk and infected emails that come along with that.
A Felony is a Felony. If I leave my wallet in my locked car, and some punk uses an "exploit" involving a coat hanger to unlock the door and steal it, that doesn't make him any less likely to go to jail if caught. Hack the wrong computer with your little "piece of art" and you can disappear and never be heard from again these days. You won't be missed.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
While I'm not fond of Windows and choose not to run it, what I would like to see, is when the little punks that write these sorts of things get caught, the companies like your wifes that lost time because of the exploit sue the writer of said exploit/worm/whatever, and his mommy and daddy, if applicable, and turn them into refrigerator box residents.
Consequences, boys and girls, even it the vulerability is caused by incompetents at Redmond, if you cause DAMAGE by exploiting them, there are consequences. You won't like them. Vandalism is a crime. Vandalism that causes that kind of damage is a FELONY. Kiss any chance of a productive carreer goodbye and learn the holy phrase "Would you like fries with that?" because that's about as far as any l33t virus kiddie is going in life.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
there was also something about a transformer blowing today too.... and somehow that caused havoc on radios used by taxis, bike messengers, the center city distric peoples and some other teams.... for a few hours they were all crosstalking, yikes!
You would be quite frightened to hear what goes on in medical networks. The medical networks I have expierence with have gaping holes and are all linked together via a giant lan. Few people have firewalls and most security attempts are thwarted by doctors demanding that they be excluded from any policy that isn't transparent to them. It's hard to explain, but medical networks are not anything like you'd imagine. (Much less any DMZ or special segmentation.)