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Old 17-05-2017, 10:27   #81
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits 40 NHS Hospitals

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
On the contrary it's the move away from mainframes running UNIX to networked PC's running Windows that has made our infrastructure so vulnerable.
Well some do use *nix flavours such as AIX but the really big guns generally run z/os with CICS processing the transactions.

But you're correct in that miscreants generally don't have access to the hardware and/or a means to seek out vulnerabilities plus the nature of these legacy systems don't present the variety of attack vectors present in a Windows based domain/network.
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