12/05/2017 The Papers

Conte. They are champions again. Frank Ross, it is good night.

Welcome to The Papers. We are joined by Steven blush, special

correspondent for the new statesman, and Ian Martin, columnist for The

Times. Welcome to you both. The front pages are dominated by the

cyber attack. Hospitals paralysed after cyber hackers held the NHS to

ransom in an unprecedented global attack. The daily Mirror highlights

A units vehicles and operations cancelled as they say hackers who is

NHS to ransom. Ambience is diverted and staff turning to pen and paper

after computers and phone lines were in lockdown. According to The Times,

patients weekend of chaos as security services hold an

international criminal gang. The Sun reports the statement by Theresa May

the patient records have not been compromised. The Daily Telegraph as

doctors when lives are at risk. The cyber attackers have been linked to

Russia. It carries an interview with Boris Johnson who says Russia might

be attempting to sabotage the general election. The Guardian

suggests up to 40 hospitals in the UK and GP surgeries have been

affected. It reports a political story, quoting from an interview it

has with the deputy leader of Labour, Tom Watson, whose as the

party is determined to turn its poll numbers around. I am sure to put

this spelling mistakes in just the fox me. Let's start with the cyber

attack. The Financial Times, NHS hackers used stolen cyber weapons

from US spy agency. Supposedly this has come from the national security

agency in America. It seems to be something called eternal blue, which

was developed by Kers spies and stolen and has been used to

supercharge the hand of this mysterious kind of hackers. It is a

massive story. It cuts right through the UK general election and is one

of those stories which raises a lot of questions about how prepared the

NHS was, about basic questions about fundamental cyber security, which

the government will be quite nervous about. A lot of experts we have been

speaking to sink the NHS was not the target here. It just got caught up

in this ransomware which was sent out and, unfortunately, it had an

effect on the health service. The big questions which will be raised

is this weapon, built by the US security service and sold online and

then used by hackers. Questions will be raised here, we have known about

this problem for a while. Microsoft has a free patch available to fix

that problem. If it hasn't been installed at the NHS than people

have been lax or you have people in the NHS is still using old operating

systems. 90% of hospitals are using a system which wind was not greeted

new security for 30 years. It is a story of underinvestment and IT

infrastructure and the powers we give to the GCHQ and the NSA to

build weapons like this and with any other weapon, once they are built,

they can be bought and sold by anyone. The Daily Mail sent some

hackers cripple the NHS. Operations were cancelled, ambulances had to be

diverted, but it seems like a lot of staff responded incredibly fast to

try to mitigate and reduce a lot of the impact it could have had. That

is exactly it. There seems to have been a plan, a good contingency plan

in place and it seems to have worked. I think what is not quite

clear, it is not even clear to the government yet, for and what of the

knock-on effects are into next week. I think people will be very tolerant

and patient over the course of the weekend, but we will have to see

when we get a Monday or Tuesday how convincingly this system has coped

and how well the government answers the questions. Why were warnings

ignored? Does the article explain what those warnings were coming

from? I am not sure it does. It is not in the paper. The Guardian have

stuff about warnings. The ex-assume it is about the vulnerability of

older versions of Windows and we have known of these exist in the NHS

because of the lung problem across various governments and different

parties of Whitehall not being able to build its own pay-TV, so the

advice of off-the-shelf, but you have to keep buying them what you

have well-known vulnerabilities and it looks as if that might be the

source of the NHS possible problems in this attack. Depending on which

party you are, it looks as if the NHS is once again not having the

investment it needs. Not the number of doctors and nurses, but the IT

seem to be some suggestions that seem to be some suggestions that

rather basic things which should have been done were not done. That

will come out in the wash and there will be a Parliamentary enquiry and

it is a serious subject. I should point out that it is a global

problem and this has had 74 countries already. Chinese

newspapers are talking about Chinese universities being affected. 60

major health facilities in the US. It is not an exclusively British

problem. In Spain there is a telecommunications company, the

state-owned oil company in Brazil. They are affected as well. Who were

the real target? They were asking for a bit coin as a ransom, if you

want your data back and unencrypted, you have got to pay some money. Very

probably it is getting money, rather than attacking any specific nation

or government. It is an attack of cybercrime, rather than cyber

terrorism. Probably they were just looking to see who out there was

still vulnerable to the eternal blue full mobility and everyone watching

this programme will know that in most offices, computers are replaced

when they break down. Most of us will have ageing computers until

they die. They will be hitting it to see if it works. Hackers hold NHS to

ransom is the headline in the Telegraph. It is so difficult, if

not impossible, to track who is responsible for these attacks. Very

difficult. A global manhunt underway and this is presented very much as

though the experts at GCHQ who are among the best in the field, as

though they are leading the hunt, but I am sure lots of intelligence

agencies will be involved. One practical concern that the Telegraph

raises is just this question of medical records. That includes

things like cancer diagnosis. Does the system have the ability to

update the data that has lost that has been recently collected and

people will want urgent answers on this in the next few days. Hopefully

it has all been backed up somewhere. Stay with the Telegraph. Boris warns

of Putin meddling in an election. Some interesting quotes. He covers a

lot of ground in this article. He talks about the fact that Putin

would be delighted with the Corbyn Wen, the threat of cyber hacking and

the idea of the election is not a foregone conclusion. He talks about

it being a realistic possibility that Putin will be involved in the

election and talks about seeing it in America and France. There is a

question to be had about whether it is a realistic chance in this

election, as the election is not particularly close. To be honest, it

is hard to see who the candidate Putin wouldn't be happy with in this

election is. Jeremy Corbyn is very sceptical about American

intervention abroad, Putin isn't that. Theresa May wants to take this

out of the EU with what looks like a hard Exeter, Putin is quite into

that as well. That isn't actually a foreign policy concern for the

Kremlin. Vladimir Putin does have the sense of humour, but I don't

think even he thinks he would stand a chance of making Jeremy Corbyn

Prime Minister. It is an indication of how desperate the Conservatives

are to hype up this idea of Corbyn as a threat, because that is the

biggest threat, the idea of people thinking the election is already

settled, that the Tories have a large majority test and. The concern

is some people might not vote. Boris talking about the risk of the

Russians subverting British democracy, which sounds rather

unlikely. There are figures here from a survey of 40,000 voters by

Lord Ashcroft which suggests an enormous landslide victory, if that

poll is correct. It suggested a majority of 162 to 180 seats for the

Tories. Bigger than Tony Blair's record majority in 1997, slightly

bigger than the polls. In terms of the liver of food dissolving outside

the cities, kind of what we would expect. Let's look at the Guardian.

Don't turn may into Thatcher once Tom Watson. Above that, a man

inspecting the bottom of the bus. Theresa May is looking for the C

word. He means conservative. They are not mentioning Conservative,

they are mentioning Theresa May. Tom Watson is essentially saying this is

a coded leadership version of what Ben Bradshaw and various other MPs

have been saying. Vote Labour to prevent a massive landslide and try

to rescue some seats. He is warning that it will be very difficult to

hold the Tories to account in the Commons if they have a majority of

the order Margaret Thatcher had. It was 140 odd sheets, 100 seats in

1983. It is fascinating to see this. The Conservatives themselves almost

can't believe it. You see the power of this brand, whether you are

sceptical about Theresa May or not. That picture you have added there,

they would Conservatives is in tiny letters on the door on the side of

the bus and the rest of it is hoped on Theresa May, her personality, her

signature and the Tories are astonished by how well she has

connected. There is a question of whether that will endure after the

election. For the moment, she allows them to push into all expected

territory. Jeremy Corbyn are talking about not being a pacifist and would

use military action as a last resort and it would be bomb first talk

litter pickers in his view that hasn't worked. That message will

appeal to people, would it? That is their hope. Part of the context of

that speech is the Labour MPs, Labour candidates, on the doorstep

are worried that they don't have a strong line on security. One thing

Jeremy was trying to do was think I am not a pacifist, there are

situations in which I would use military force to cauterise that

particular one. There is fatigued with foreign adventures, but people

regard Theresa May as safe and stable, to use her own message. We

shouldn't really keep repeating it? Should we? In any case, people

regard Theresa May as someone who would do that anyway. That message

would cut through and as they turn people around on Theresa May. The

Conservatives can always say they don't have a coherent policy on

security and defence. They want to rethink everything. The lines are so

easy for Conservative Central office to draft you might suspect Jeremy

Corbyn was a Tory agent. It is that easy on defence, patriotism,

pacifism and all the rest of it. It is too easy for the Tories. What you

are about to see and what happened today and is reflected in this

coverage, the Tories are going on the attack now and using her

personally to attack Corbyn and that is using the trust she has the

hammer home the point. It is only just begun. They will turn up the

volume. Let's finish with the times and a picture of the Chelsea

manager, Antonio Conte, looking rather pleased after Chelsea won the

Premier League by beating West Brom 1-0 at the hawthorns. You are not

rejoicing around this table. I am not a football fan, but these

Chelsea chaps seem to have one and well done. I am an Arsenal fan and

very unhappy. Only one year ago, is it really a year ago, I was

celebrating the fact that Leicester City had won. That was a romantic

fairy tale. Just cast your mind back. That's it for The Papers

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