Left staff without e-mail/Internet access
Maybe someone should investigate to see if there is a corresponding surge in ACTUAL work?
The internationally famous Great Ormond Street Hospital has been taken offline as a safety measure following last week's catastrophic WannaCrypt outbreak. The London-based children's hospital was not itself hit by the ransomware but has nonetheless quarantined its computer network. This has left staff without either email or …
Farage?
How many companies with more than 10 or so employees have utterly pointless e-mails sent out that could be quickly resolved with a face-to-face discussion?
How many of the same companies have someone who spends hours looking for something online that can be achieved some other way (telephoning suppliers, checking past actions, talking to colleagues etc)?
No. The amount of work done has been severely affected in places that were hit and in places that assure us were not.
The computers are used to do things like look at xrays/scans (work), record observations (work), book visits (work), track ambulances (work) and look up the results of blood tests (work).
Some work had to postponed but, if we find that someone has died because of this, the criminals behind this will be facing charges for that as well as the secret police and spooks from the USA (CIA, FBI etc), to Israel (Mossad?), Russia (FSB was KGB) and here (Police, Military,Jeremy Hunt).
Of course it increases the likelihood of real work being done but you must also account for the sheer imagination of the workshy; although in these circumstances they'll not to browsing the Rainforest or Junk Shop for tat instead of answering bed buzzers they'll be stood about chatting about their weekends or holidays instead.
It's not funny when it's true....
I myself have sent out similar ridiculous reports. Because someone higher up the ladder told me to do it, to "show that IT does something".
I wasn't overly concerned about WannaCry, we've been hit by ransomware in the past (and probably will be again in the future). Once I knew how it propagated Friday and checked patch levels the worst I expected was a few users who got there local files buggered. I'm a LOT more concerned about all the other exploits that $3letteragency is storing that aren't leaked publicly.
Well, it works against hackers, even when two idiots using the same keyboard can't stop them, so it must be a good defence against this as well.
The health service organisation that I work for is disconnected from N3, as I presume GOSH is too, from this article, and I've been told that it likely to remain disconnected until the end of this week at least. It removes one almighty infection route. Internal and external email is OK, as are the internal VoIP phones.
Y'know, massive factory explosion (not necessarily a chemical works. Dust can make a very big bang as well), region wide flash flood, 20 car pileup, zombie apocalypse etc.
It's quite generic but it tells staff where they should be, what they should be doing and what equipment they should have or be collecting, IOW it stops the thinking and negotiating that would otherwise have to happen in real time during the event.
Looks like IT (and they should talk to the rest of the hospital) should have one as well for massive IT shutdown, comms failure (DSL cable gets dug up by accident, HGV plows into exchange) and radio comms to ambulances (Airwave in the UK IIRC).
Like the MIP it all sounds a monumental PITA, a complete waste of time and deeply f**king paranoid.
Until something happens.
The NHS runs a load of stuff on a 17YO and stopped its support contract with MS 2 years ago. It shows no sign of doing the obvious thing and migrating off this OS.
Does anyone think this is never going to happen again?