{"id":12571,"date":"2017-10-27T01:01:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/27\/nhs-could-have-avoided-wannacry-hack-with-basic-it-security-says-report\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T01:01:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T23:01:13","slug":"nhs-could-have-avoided-wannacry-hack-with-basic-it-security-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12571","title":{"rendered":"NHS could have avoided WannaCry hack with basic IT security&#039; says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Audit Office says NHS and Department of Health must \u2018get their act together\u2019 or suffer \u2018far worse\u2019 than chaos experienced in MayThe NHS could have avoided the crippling effects of the \u201crelatively unsophisticated\u201d WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May with \u201cbasic IT security\u201d, according to an independent investigation into the cyberattack.The National Audit Office said that 19,500 medical appointments were cancelled, computers at 600 GP surgeries were locked and five hospitals had to divert ambulances elsewhere. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/27\/nhs-could-have-avoided-wannacry-hack-basic-it-security-national-audit-office\" target=\"_blank\">NHS could have avoided WannaCry hack with basic IT security&#039; says report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Audit Office says NHS and Department of Health must \u2018get their act together\u2019 or suffer \u2018far worse\u2019 than chaos experienced in MayThe NHS could have avoided the crippling effects of the \u201crelatively unsophisticated\u201d WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May with \u201cbasic IT security\u201d, according to an independent investigation into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}