HMS Queen Elizabeth could be vulnerable to cyber-attack

[Mordac]

Now I'm fully expecting this story to be an elaborate hoax, I mean who in their right mind would spend £3.5bn on a new aircraft carrier running XP?

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...e-cyber-attack

[greenlake]

I mean who in their right mind would spend £3.5bn on a new aircraft carrier running XP?

[Fred Bloggs]

Don't the majority of the UK's cash machines work on Windows XP still?

[shaunbhoy]

It will be fine, they will just run the latest malware patches!!

[Eirikur]

Looks trident may also be running on win XP (or even older)
When launching missiles they need to pay a ransom first to unlock the ransomware

[BrilloPad]

R Adm Keith Blount, head of the Navy’s carrier programme, said: “This ship has been built in a very unique way: assembled in Rosyth but built around the UK in six different yards. This is the moment where that British shipbuilding expertise meets the professionalism of the Royal Navy to give us a ship to be proud of.”

However the coding was done by Bob Shawadiwadi.

[MrMarkyMark]

First reported by the Register December 2015

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/1...xp_royal_navy/

The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth appears to be using Windows XP.

The ship is a year from completion, so there is plenty of time yet to bin it for a more up-to-date and secure version of the venerable operating system.

The Ministry of Defence is not returning our calls, but this could always be, as one reader says, “comedy wallpaper on a technician’s laptop...”

[shaunbhoy]

Now I'm fully expecting this story to be an elaborate hoax, I mean who in their right mind would spend £3.5bn on a new aircraft carrier running XP?

Playing Devil's advocate, a Project of this size and duration will probably straddle half a dozen different versions of operating system.
At least they have opted for one that is tried and tested to a reasonable extent..............even if it IS no longer universally supported!!

[VectraMan]

[Mark Deller, commander air on the Queen Elizabeth] added: “We are a very sanitised procurement train. I would say compared to the NHS buying computers off the shelf, I would think we are probably better than that.

Well that's my mind put at rest.

[TestMangler]

A mate of mine was contracting on that as a tiler/fitter. I'd be more worried about tiles or wet panels in the bogs falling on my head than cyber attack.