At a time when Internet security is of the utmost importance, the UK Health Service (NHS) or National Health Service (NHS) staff had to learn this lesson in the difficult way. Reddit users have discovered that the UK National Health Service website, used by millions of people, redirects its users to malware-infected sites. More than 800 NHS pages, which are linked to an infected domain, give the chance 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 solved, it will put in place a control system to ensure it will not happen again.
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
