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The UK Health Service website distributes malware

nhsIn an era where the στο Διαδίκτυο είναι υψίστης σημασίας, οι υπεύθυνοι της ιστοσελίδας της Υπηρεσίας Υγείας του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου (NHS ή National Health Service) έπρεπε να μάθουν αυτό το μάθημα με το δύσκολο τρόπο. Χρήστες του Reddit ανακάλυψαν ότι η ιστοσελίδα της Εθνικής Υπηρεσίας Υγείας του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου, που ται από εκατομμύρια ανθρώπους, ανακατευθύνει τους χρήστες της σε ιστοσελίδες μολυσμένες με . 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 have arisen from a simple typo, when a developer did not correctly write the those that constitute a Google API domain. When someone discovered the error, bought the "misspelled" domain, uploaded 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.

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