Exploited server in SingHealth cyber attack did not get security update for 14 months, COI finds

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SINGAPORE - A server exploited by hackers to ultimately reach SingHealth's critical system, leading to Singapore's worst data breach in June, had not received the necessary security software updates for more than a year.

Servers are typically patched several times a month.

This server became one of the many pathways hackers exploited, as it fell through the cracks of Integrated Health Information Systems' (IHiS) oversight, the Committee of Inquiry (COI) heard on Thursday (Sept 27).

At the COI hearing into the breach, Mr Tan Aik Chin, a senior manager of cancer service registry and development at the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), testified that he became the "convenient" custodian of the server in question.

On paper, he was not supposed to manage the server, but he had been doing so in practice since 2014.

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[halsey02]

The main 'server' had not been updated since 1959, if Singhealth servers have not been updated, our 'server' certainly is in bad shape. Just like those managing the Singhealth servers, " they are just doing their job", as long as there is tomorrow & then pay day, JUST CHOP & SIGN.

 

[Valium]

Just like Singapore.

 

[50000]

Just like Singapore.

when are THEY going to realise that the whole civil service is rotten to the core?

everyone at the higher levels are just playing musical chairs and therefore have no urgency to make changes for fear of screwing up. The success stories that are published are just because they were there when trouble started and had no choice but to solve the problem eg: SARS/MERS contingency plans.

the middle levels are just enjoying their 9-5 jobs and just trying to not show that they are incompetent; and

the bottom levels are just waiting for instructions to do something. Best of all, all of them are getting bonuses for doing nothing spectacular!!