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A comment on Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm.

Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by maksimum on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:41PM (#14329188)
> .der, .pfx, .key, .crt, .csr, .p12, .pem, .odt, .sxw, .stw, .3ds, .max, .3dm, .ods, .sxc, .stc, .dif, .slk, .wb2, .odp, .sxd, .std, .sxm, .sqlite3, .sqlitedb, .sql, .accdb, .mdb, .dbf, .odb, .mdf, .ldf, .cpp, .pas, .asm, .cmd, .bat, .vbs, .sch, .jsp, .php, .asp, .java, .jar, .class, .mp3, .wav, .swf, .fla, .wmv, .mpg, .vob, .mpeg, .asf, .avi, .mov, .mp4, .mkv, .flv, .wma, .mid, .m3u, .m4u, .svg, .psd, .tiff, .tif, .raw, .gif, .png, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .iso, .backup, .zip, .rar, .tgz, .tar, .bak, .ARC, .vmdk, .vdi, .sldm, .sldx, .sti, .sxi, .dwg, .pdf, .wk1, .wks, .rtf, .csv, .txt, .msg, .pst, .ppsx, .ppsm, .pps, .pot, .pptm, .pptx, .ppt, .xltm, .xltx, .xlc, .xlm, .xlt, .xlw, .xlsb, .xlsm, .xlsx, .xls, .dotm, .dot, .docm, .docx, .doc

Phewww! Good thing I'm using .tex to write my thesis and write most of my code in .py... lol

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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by semi-extrinsic on Saturday May 13, 2017 @03:03AM (#14329850)
I recently tried to email someone a .tar.gz of some .py files, and their academic email (large US university, hosted gmail) refused to let it pass. I was left to wonder what kind of research they do there.
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by mattnewton on Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:22AM (#14330239)
Research with modern tooling like git?
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by themihai on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:27AM (#14330616)
I still believe you should be able to send files through email. Why should I setup a git server( static ip + domain name) to share a piece of code? What's next? "Modern tooling" like Google Docs instead of local apps?
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by jlg23 on Saturday May 13, 2017 @10:58AM (#14331282)
> I still believe you should be able to send files through email.

Refusing to listen to what people have been telling you since the inception of email does not make you right, though.

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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by woah on Saturday May 13, 2017 @10:45AM (#14331231)
If it's too long to send in the body of the email, it should probably be in git.
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by gavingmiller on Saturday May 13, 2017 @10:07AM (#14331036)
Password protected zip. And/or wrap in another zip is usually enough to thwart Gmail
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by phreeza on Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:17AM (#14330230)
I think gmail does the same sometimes?
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by btashton on Friday May 12, 2017 @10:29PM (#14329289)
.txt is in that list you quoted... Edit: the dyslexia kicked in txt!= tex I'm the fool.
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by ohwaitnvm on Friday May 12, 2017 @10:39PM (#14329306)
!= .tex, which is for LaTeX or similar, and isn't just a plaintext .txt file.
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by askvictor on Saturday May 13, 2017 @12:08AM (#14329492)
Except that it is just plaintext...
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by wungsten on Saturday May 13, 2017 @01:19AM (#14329638)
any file can be plain text if you want it to be ;)
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by djsumdog on Saturday May 13, 2017 @03:01AM (#14329844)
and you can make plain text files that are executable in x86 land:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA

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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by obituary_latte on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:55AM (#14330496)
That was AWESOME. Thanks for sharing.
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by dom0 on Saturday May 13, 2017 @09:34AM (#14330874)
A PDF file is also mostly plaintext. At times.
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by brobinson on Saturday May 13, 2017 @01:06AM (#14329602)
It's interesting that it will target .tgz but not .tar.gz
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by f2f on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:46PM (#14329198)
i store all my images in .rgb format, i'm safe too :)
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