http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/nsw-ambulance-service-recovers-from-computer-virus-20110214-1ate0.html By Ben Grubb The Sydney Morning Herald February 14, 2011 Computers which coordinate NSW's ambulances all finally returned to normal Monday afternoon after a virus forced staff to shut them down for more than 24 hours. One source who used to work closely with the Computer Aided Dispatch System (CAD) system told this website that the ambulance service was "very protective of it when I worked there" and that the virus likely infiltrated the network via an infected USB as the network was a "physically isolated network" with "no internet connection of any kind". "The only way a virus could get onto it would be via physical access – someone with the virus on a USB key," the source said. "It's probably just someone [who] has plugged in an infected USB and it's infected a few Windows PCs in the office." Those claims were put to the NSW Ambulance Service but it declined to comment on them. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Mon Feb 14 2011 - 22:43:56 PST
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