Summary
Dr. Kevin Fong retraces the global WannaCry cyber attack of May 2017, with a focus on its impact to the National Health Service (NHS), including historical information about this malware; the outbreak and its effect on the NHS; how it spread; a reconstruction of the attack; some myths about bitcoin, the ransomware of choice; negotiating with cyber criminals; how it was luckily stopped; what could be done to prevent future attacks; and new cyber security threats from the Internet-of-Things.