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Virus Outbreak Causes Serious Downtime for NSW Ambulance Service Systems

The computer system coordinating ambulances in three New South Wales regions was offline for more than 24 hours following a malware outbreak.Dispatchers were forced to revert back to the old pen and paper-based method that hasn't been used in over ten years since the computer-assisted system was put in place."Th...

14 February 2011
04:55 GMT

Mystery Computer Virus Hits UK University

The University of Exeter in South West of England experienced serious problems with its computer network earlier this week due to a virus outbreak. Systems running Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 seem to have been particularly affected by the unnamed malware. The problems started on Monday when a computer...

21 January 2010
09:48 GMT

U.S. Government Contractor Announces Data Breach

A government security contractor is in the process of notifying its employees that their personal information may have been stolen after a virus has compromised the security of its network. As a precaution, the company is offering free enrollment with a credit monitoring service to its workers. SRA International is ...

4 February 2009
04:24 GMT

Ministries in Bulgaria and New Zealand Fight Computer Viruses

The Bulgarian Interior Ministry and the Health Ministry in New Zealand are being confronted with virus outbreaks on their computer networks. The infections have hindered the normal operations in several departments. Bulgaria's Minister of Interior, Mihail Mikov, announced that an unnamed computer virus had sprea...

12 January 2009
02:52 GMT

Computer Virus Eradicated from London Hospitals' Network

The computer virus outbreak that crippled the network operation of three hospitals in London last  month is almost over. The administration announced that around 97% of the 5,000 computers on the network were operational again. A rare incident of computer malware affecting medical facilities took shape on Novemb...

2 December 2008
05:25 GMT

Computer Virus Outbreak Hits London Hospitals

The networks of three London hospitals, the Royal London Hospital, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts), and the London Chest Hospital, were severely affected by a computer worm, on Tuesday. Because of the emergency procedures, the activity relying on computer systems has been affected, and non-essential operatio...

19 November 2008
10:09 GMT


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