At a time when internet security is of the utmost importance, the website managers of the UK's National Health Service (NHS or National Health Service) έπρεπε να μάθουν αυτό το μάθημα με το δύσκολο τρόπο. Χρήστες του Reddit discovered that the website of the UK National Health Service, which usesται από εκατομμύρια ανθρώπους, ανακατευθύνει τους users of websites infected with malware. More than 800 NHS pages linked to an infected domain provide an opportunity for malware to spread through an official government portal.
An NHS spokesman said the unjustified incident was not due to hackers, but rather in a coding error. "A routine check on the security of the website alerted us to this problem on Monday morning. We have now identified the problem and will fix the code. ”
The problem is said to be due to a simple typo when a developer did not spell the letters that make up a Google API domain. When someone discovered the error, bought the "misspelled" domain, loaded it malware and began to distribute them. (He wrote "Translate.googleaspis.com" instead of "translate.googleapis.com.")
The NHS added that once the problem is resolved, it will put a system in place control to ensure it doesn't happen again.
