Rob O’Neil published a great article last week in Computerworld entitled ‘Anatomy of a Conficker Outbreak: Waikato District Health Board”

The Conficker outbreak actually happened right at the end of last year and we tweeted it at the time,  but its only now that full facts behind the outbreak are public.

The story is a another classic case of an organisation only being as secure as the least secure point in the network.  The report cited faulty software, aging systems, complexity and a lack of full network control as contributing factors.  The outbreak caused some areas of the DHB to be shut down for two days. And the system responsible for the outbreak (the parking system) is still quarantined from the main network.