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Re: Windows?

From owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Windows?
Date 2016-02-16 21:05 +0000
Organization O.W.L.
Message-ID <thjdw03ra.safe@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
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Ezekiel <zeke@nosuchemail.com> wrote:
> 
> "owl" <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote in message 
> news:hgjdi30.jfie03@rooftop.invalid...
>> Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> wrote:
>>> http://www.techtimes.com/articles/133874/20160216/hackers-hold-hollywood-hospital-s-computer-system-hostage-demand-3-6-million-as-patients-transferred.htm
>>> "
>>> Hackers have taken the computer system of the Hollywood Presbyterian
>>> Medical Center hostage, demanding 9,000 Bitcoin or $3.6 million.
>>> "
>>
>> Content-Length: 311
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
>> Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
>>
> 
> What's that, their webserver?
> 

Yeah.

> Netcraft says the server is Mongrel running on Linux hosted by SoftLayer 
> Technologies.
> 

Where does it say that?  If I go to netcraft, it says IIS/8.5
Is this not them?
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.hollywoodpresbyterian.com

> If they're stupid enough to host *any* web server on the same machine as 
> their backend patient data then they were asking for trouble.
> 

Not necessarily the same machine, but it reveals a reliance on Microsoft
technology.  When the web server is IIS, I would guess that the backend
is SQL Server.  There is a patient portal on the website, so internal
data can at least be touched via the web site.


> It's like putting a Windows server next to a fuel tank aboard a cruise ship.
> 
 
LOL!

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Windows? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-02-16 19:14 +0100
  Re: Windows? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-02-16 13:42 -0500
    Re: Windows? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-02-16 19:54 +0100
      Re: Windows? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-02-16 14:19 -0500
        Re: Windows? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-02-16 20:52 +0100
          Re: Windows? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-02-16 15:23 -0500
      Re: Windows? Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-02-17 12:44 +0000
  Re: Windows? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-02-16 20:05 +0000
    Re: Windows? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-02-16 15:34 -0500
      Re: Windows? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-02-16 21:05 +0000
        Re: Windows? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-02-16 16:42 -0500
          Re: Windows? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-02-16 22:13 +0000
            Re: Windows? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-02-16 19:41 -0500
              Re: Windows? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-02-17 00:49 +0000
                Re: Windows? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-02-16 20:05 -0500
        Re: Windows? Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-02-17 14:16 +0000
          Re: Windows? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-02-17 18:59 +0000
  Re: Windows? John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 05:11 -0800

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