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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @coliver
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      @coliver said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

      Fun when you're superbug gets out and starts waging war on your allies.

      I think you'll find that the NSA has no allies. They are universally the enemies of everyone.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
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        @MattSpeller said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

        That's not entirely fair, it was stolen & weaponized differently...

        Said every dictator who ever deployed chemical weapons.

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        • CloudKnightC
          CloudKnight
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          the WannaCry ransomware was patched back on march the 14th by Microsoft, so If systems were updated this could of been prevented...this does stress how important security updates really are..

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          • NerdyDadN
            NerdyDad
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            I didn't read the article, but do we know the environment that this happened in? Was it Windows, Linux, Unix?

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            • CloudKnightC
              CloudKnight @NerdyDad
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              @NerdyDad said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

              I didn't read the article, but do we know the environment that this happened in? Was it Windows, Linux, Unix?

              Pretty much all NHS machines are windows based.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @NerdyDad
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                @NerdyDad said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                I didn't read the article, but do we know the environment that this happened in? Was it Windows, Linux, Unix?

                NHS is famous for being very antiquated and non-technical. Literally used in textbooks as one of the most famous "can't do IT projects to save their life (or anyone's)" examples. Likely still on XP. The ransomware is believed to have gotten in because they weren't patching. NHS is like everything that can go wrong with IT in a large organization.

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                • Deleted74295D
                  Deleted74295 Banned @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                  I think you'll find that the NSA has no allies. They are universally the enemies of everyone.

                  Who pays for the show if they don't have at least 1 ally?

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @Deleted74295
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                    @Breffni-Potter said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                    @scottalanmiller said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                    I think you'll find that the NSA has no allies. They are universally the enemies of everyone.

                    Who pays for the show if they don't have at least 1 ally?

                    They pay for it themselves and blackmail everyone else to keep their operations going.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Deleted74295
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                      @Breffni-Potter said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                      @scottalanmiller said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                      I think you'll find that the NSA has no allies. They are universally the enemies of everyone.

                      Who pays for the show if they don't have at least 1 ally?

                      Those who live in fear of them. It takes no allies to make money. Who is the mafia's ally that pays them? No one.

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                      • Deleted74295D
                        Deleted74295 Banned @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                        @Breffni-Potter said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                        @scottalanmiller said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                        I think you'll find that the NSA has no allies. They are universally the enemies of everyone.

                        Who pays for the show if they don't have at least 1 ally?

                        Those who live in fear of them. It takes no allies to make money. Who is the mafia's ally that pays them? No one.

                        How did Trump build all those buildings in New York again...

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Deleted74295
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                          @Breffni-Potter said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                          @scottalanmiller said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                          @Breffni-Potter said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                          @scottalanmiller said in NHS England - Cyber-ouch...:

                          I think you'll find that the NSA has no allies. They are universally the enemies of everyone.

                          Who pays for the show if they don't have at least 1 ally?

                          Those who live in fear of them. It takes no allies to make money. Who is the mafia's ally that pays them? No one.

                          How did Trump build all those buildings in New York again...

                          Debt

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                          • coliverC
                            coliver @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller both foreign and domestic.

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                            • nadnerBN
                              nadnerB
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                              Being the NSA that's the originating issue here, does that mean MS can sue the crap out of them for breech of EULA?
                              or will the NSA have their own "special" licensing agreement?

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                              • ObsolesceO
                                Obsolesce
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                                The comments on this article are ridiculous: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/05/how-to-protect-yourself-against-wannacry/?utm_source=list&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=051417

                                If your excuse is that your software only supports Windows XP, then it's time to find a new vendor that supports OSs from the present decade.

                                Easier said than done. I know... but rather that than people dieing.

                                The organization I work for has some proprietary (PROM or EPROM i think) programming software (forget exactly what it is) that requires a specific processor (due to the timing/frequency of the CPU crystal) that can't run anything greater than 98.. but that computer is off the network. There are ways...

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