Re: worm burrowing through some very strong hospital firewalls ..

[Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> ____/ Doug Mentohl on Monday 09 March 2009 16:48 : \____
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> > Appointments for cancer patients had to be rescheduled after a computer
> > virus infected the networking systems at two Scottish hospitals last
> > week .. Systems were taken offline for two days to allow computer
> > technicians to clean up the mess ..
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> > "They are calling it a worm and when they identify it it burrows deeper
> > into the system and duplicates itself, and it is getting through some
> > very strong firewalls."
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> What are "very strong firewalls"? Isn't that like saying your have just
> a "minor" security flaw or "she's just half pregnant"?

Maybe it just means the firewalls were very expensive.  :-)


> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/09/scot_hostpitals_malware_infection/
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> > 'The exploit can affect systems with firewalls enabled, but which
> > operate with print and file sharing enabled'
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/3d9c83c65478ff91?hl=en