Mytob Worm Still Thrashing
BBC news reported that a computer worm shut down three London hospitals on Monday. According to E-Health Insider the hospitals — St. Bartholomew’s, the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, and The London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green — are part of a single system, Barts and The London NHS Trust.
The culprit is believed to be that of the Mytob worm that infects via email and installs a backdoor trojan that allows hackers remote control over computers.
Guardian.co.uk - A spokesman said the engineers believed they had contained the virus on Monday night, but the system crashed when staff logged on yesterday. He said: “There is no indication that this was a malicious attack, but engineers are still investigating where the virus came from and what it is.” The bug did not infect the patient record system and there was no evidence that it spread to other trusts.”
How safe are your medical records?
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2 Comments
can i use this picture for a book iam wrinting
I’m Ok with anyone copying anything from this site – unless it is my words – then I would like credit
I originally copied the worm from http://www.the-rock-of-gibraltar.com/images/fp_448/facebook/koobface_worm.jpg – I never received a response as to yay or nay for use and the disclaimer at their site states: http://www.the-rock-of-gibraltar.com and all other names, logos, and icons identifying http://www.the-rock-of-gibraltar.com‘s services and/or products are proprietary marks of http://www.the-rock-of-gibraltar.com, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned in this site may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
http://www.the-rock-of-gibraltar.com/This-Website/1908/disclaimer
Obviously the worm is not part of their logo – so I did not violate any terms of service over yonder.
I merely added the text to make the post more effective
Cheers,
/Bev