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  Disgraceful that government networks are so easy to access by hackers

  Posted by Nigel on 21 May 2021 at 7:42 am

  A ransomware group which locked Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) out of its IT systems a week ago has shared a decryption tool that could allow restoration of operations, the Irish government has announced.

  The move by the hackers was “an encouraging development,” the government said in a statement on Thursday.

  The country’s National Cyber Security Centre as well as private contractors were examining the provided tool to make sure it “would support restoration of our systems and rather than cause further harm,” the statement added.

  “Every effort is being made to restore important aspects of the HSE’s IT infrastructure as soon as possible and the focus remains very firmly on restoring medical services for the many thousands of patients in need of them,” it said.

  Despite claims no payment has been made it is very obvious that one has, just like in America for the pipeline, no government network should be so easy to hack, clearly these governments are hiring the wrong people to protect these networks.

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