Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack...
by pmoleri on Friday May 12, 2017 @07:27PM
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Great info. So, for the layman. How vulnerable are users behind a firewall or broadband router?
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Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack...
by davidpardo on Saturday May 13, 2017 @03:13AM
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Pretty safe until a machine in the network gets infected. The first infection comes from a phishing email or similar. From then on, the worm infects other machines connected to the same network, but usually not across the internet.
It uses a vulnerability in a protocol that's used for network sharing, and that's usually blocked at your router