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UK Health Agency Switches to Windows 10 Citing WannaCry Ransomware Outbreak


Jasper_The_Rasper
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WOW!! Finally it may happen.
 
30th April, 2018, By Catalin Cimpanu
 


 
The UK Department of Health and Social Care has announced that it will transition all National Health Service (NHS) computer systems to Windows 10.
 
Officials cited the operating system's more advanced security features as the primary reason for upgrading current systems, such as the SmartScreen technology included with Microsoft Edge (a Google Safe Browsing-like system) and Windows Defender, Microsoft's sneakily good antivirus product.
 
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DanP
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Seems like the NHS actually learned something from WannaCry... Will anyone else?
 
-Dan

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Don't hold your breath, Jasper...too little too late...and at this rate they will be behind the curve re. the next one that makes the rounds...it is a case of trying to patch when wholesale change is required. :@

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Don't hold your breath, Jasper...too little too late...and at this rate they will be behind the curve re. the next one that makes the rounds...it is a case of trying to patch when wholesale change is required. :@
I'm not Baldrick, but at least it is a start but I hope the team they will have helping is not the same ones who helped TSB!

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