Re: New Zealand: Conficker Cripples Waikato District Health Board

[Alex Lanstein <ALanstein () FireEye com>]

What drives me up a wall is all those proprietary hospital machines (MRIs, prescription dispensers, etc) that are 
managed by outside vendors are rarely/never get even Windows patches.  It would have taken about 3 words to change 
HIPPA to cover this long-standing gaping hole.

Alex

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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson [fergdawgster () gmail 
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Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:24 PM
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Subject: [funsec] New Zealand: Conficker Cripples Waikato District Health       Board

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Conficker -- it's still out there.

Via NZHerald.co.nz.

[snip]

Waikato District Health Board has been crippled by a computer worm which
has seen every PC in the organisation shut down.

While the main hospital in Hamilton and smaller outlying hospitals were
continuing to function, spokeswoman Mary-Ann Gill said it was important
people only came for treatment if it was absolutely necessary.

Emergency care was still available but those arriving for routine
appointments were being affected, as were GPs who often made referrals to
hospitals via email.

"We are asking GPs to only make urgent referrals," she said.

"We need to keep as many people out of hospitals as we can."

Ms Gill said DHB technicians were working on a computer upgrade overnight
when things started to go awry.

"About 2am they noticed there were some issues with the computers. By 4am
they realised a computer virus had got into our whole system.

[snip]

More:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10616
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- - ferg

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