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"owl" <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote in message 
news:thjdw03ra.safe@rooftop.invalid...
> 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
>

That is what your link says. The one I used is:
   http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=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.

I'm not convinced about the reliance on MS technology. Companies are pretty 
hetro these days with what they use. Connecting a web page to a database 
isn't any more difficult with Oracle or Teradata.

The web page would never access the db directly anyway. It would go through 
a middle-layer that manages all this stuff. The web page isn't running stuff 
like "select * from patients where patient_id = ${url.id}

The middle-layer is what connects to the db. They're not a big hospital (430 
beds) and they bought all the finance, hospital and patient management 
software from some 3rd party.

They can buy and use whatever software they need. But IT and security is 
probably being done in-house.

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

I got a kick from the videos of the cruise ship that left NJ and took 4,500 
passengers into a huge storm. I'm curious what the thought process is for 
someone to think that sending a ship into a huge storm is a good idea. Have 
schedules taken over common sense?

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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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