"NHS Scotland systems are being recovered".
Scores of organizations inside the NHS, which provides free medical care for all and is a source of pride for Britons, were hit by the ransomware on Friday.
The apparent chink in the NHS's defences led to criticism of the Government, with the Liberal Democrats demanding an inquiry.
Problems with cyber security in NHS organisations were said to have been highlighted previous year by Dame Fiona Caldicott, the national data guardian, who warned issues were given insufficient priority and health bodies persisted in using obsolete computer systems.
NHS Grampian said it remains "completely confident" no patient data was accessed in the ransomware attack, which hit 13 health boards across the country and countless nationwide, leaving some with a backlog of postponed appointments to contend with.
"It seems that a lot of internet security guys over the weekend did their homework and ran the security software updates".
Microsoft distributed the patch two months ago, which could have forestalled much of the attack, but in many organizations it was likely lost among the blizzard of updates and patches that large corporations and governments strain to manage.
All the trust's other sites - including the Borders General Hospital at Melrose and its three other community hospitals, at Peebles, Kelso and Duns - were unaffected and continued to operate as normal. Loudspeakers at Telefonica's Madrid headquarters ordered staff to shut down their computers and stop using any of the company's internal VPNs, said the report.
At Broomfield Hospital, part of Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust (Midlands & East), trauma patients were being diverted to Southend University Hospital.
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Microsoft has itself called the attack a "wake up call" for governments, who it blames for not securing their own systems.
Carmaker Renault said one of its French plants, which employs 3,500 people, wasn't reopening Monday as a "preventative step" while technicians deal with the aftermath of the attack.
Cyber security experts have warned that the ransomware virus, which affected one in five NHS Trusts, could be reactivated by computers and devices that have not yet been switched on. "Most of those systems will have been patched by now, but a significant proportion won't have been".
The Liberal Democrats have called for an inquiry into why NHS systems were left unprotected.
"This time, we even had a warning in April that this could very likely happen, so businesses need to wake up and start taking these types of threats and risks seriously".
Rudd was speaking after chairing a meeting in Whitehall, London, of the government's main emergency committee, known as Cobra.
"If you look at who has been impacted by this virus it is a huge variety across different industries and across different worldwide governments".
The NHS has been declared "open for business" but some hospitals are still suffering disruption caused by the crippling ransomware attack. I don't believe it is to do with our preparedness.
"They have been working I know through the night nearly to make sure patches are in place to make sure that hopefully the NHS services can get back to normal", he told BBC radio. Asked by Sky News whether Hunt was "being kept in a cupboard", she replied that: "There are certainly plenty of representatives from the NHS who have been standing up and saying what has been going on".




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