NHS staff told to 'use Bing' after Google's cyber-defences cause network blockages

[Northerner]

Staffers on the UK's National Health Service (NHS) networks are reportedly having trouble using Google services because the internet giant is mistakenly identifying the amount of traffic being generated as a botnet – a malicious collection of hacked computers.

In an internal email, headed "Google Access", an NHS trust IT worker confirmed the health service's networks – used by roughly 1.3 million employees – were bring blocked, at least until the user entered additional information to prove they were human.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nhs-staff-...yber-defences-cause-network-blockages-1604338

 

[grovesy]

When I worked there were a number of sites that we were blocked from using.