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In england and scotland to close, stop surgeries, cripple doctor's offices. >> we've become isolated. we have no access to the records, we've got noer records to electronic prescriptions, we've got no access to investigations on patients. >> millions of computers in more than 70 countries have now been infected, including russia's interior ministry. several chinese universities and tennessee-based chipper fedex. although companies based in the united states largely dodged a bullet, thanks to spam filters. the virus called wanna cry infects computer networks first through e-mail, rapidly expand...

More than 70 countries. russia's interior ministry and fedex among the targets. the worm gets into the computer network first through a bad link in an e-mail then quickly spreads throughout a company locking computers and demanding a $300 ransom in bitcoin. today, the guardian newspaper is reporting that a 22-year-old cyber security researcher may have accidentally activated a kill switch. and at least slowed the spread of this. but he along with microsoft and governments around the world are telling users to update their computers with the latest security patch. it's not yet clear who's respo...