According to the Directorate General of Health, the SI-DEP platform, which allows you to enter and receive the results of a Covid-19 screening test, has been saturated by a large number of seizures and attempted computer attacks.
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The General Directorate of Health (DGS) recognizes Thursday, January 6 with franceinfo of “incidents” recurring on the SI-DEP platform, which allows you to enter and retrieve the results of Covid-19 screening tests. The slowdowns, mentioned in particular on franceinfo by the spokesperson for the Union syndicale des pharmaciens de dispensière, are linked to “too large seizures”, but also to attempted computer attacks, according to the DGS.
“The overloads are linked to unauthorized robots”, a kind of software application that can be programmed to steal data or slow down a web service, “or attempted denial of service attacks”, the aim of which is to make a service unavailable, explains the DGS to franceinfo. “These malfunctions last between less than five minutes and two hours”, but can be repeated several times in the same day.
In recent days, the SI-DEP platform is also overloaded with more than 1.8 million tests performed daily in pharmacies, in addition to those done in laboratories and hospitals. The incidents were all resolved and “no results were lost”, ensures the General Directorate of Health. The computer scientists of the DGS daily increase the computing and memory capacities of the servers hosting the SI-DEP platform. The current capacity being three million tests per day, “it was decided to quadruple this capacity, or 12 million tests per day, to absorb these concentrated peaks”, assures the DGS. “The new machines are being installed and configured.”