Lessons from last week’s cyberattack

Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by denzil_correa on Sunday May 14, 2017 @06:26PM (#14337890)

> Finally, this attack provides yet another example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem. This is an emerging pattern in 2017. We have seen vulnerabilities stored by the CIA show up on WikiLeaks, and now this vulnerability stolen from the NSA has affected customers around the world. Repeatedly, exploits in the hands of governments have leaked into the public domain and caused widespread damage. An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the U.S. military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen. And this most recent attack represents a completely unintended but disconcerting link between the two most serious forms of cybersecurity threats in the world today – nation-state action and organized criminal action

Did the Microsoft President just confirm that NSA develop the vulnerability which led to the attacks on hospitals this weekend?!

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by hutzlibu on Sunday May 14, 2017 @06:39PM (#14337935)

"Did the Microsoft President just confirm that NSA develop the vulnerability "

Where did he do that? He said they found it and kept it for themself, but not that they injected it into Windows.

And about the whole thing, I would rephrase it to "many users learned the hard way about why are security-updates important".

But it is nice, that microsoft advocates a " digital genvue convention" even though I doubt anything will really change.

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by JumpCrisscross on Sunday May 14, 2017 @06:34PM (#14337920)

> An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the U.S. military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen

This is a bad analogy. The solution to people stealing your Tomahawks is to guard your goddamn bombs. A better analogy would be the U.S. military seeing Al Qaeda has a bunch of Tomahawks and doing nothing because they might be aimed at ISIS.

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by funnuf on Sunday May 14, 2017 @06:28PM (#14337902)

I thought that the NSA itself informed Microsoft after EnternalBlue was stolen?

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by rando444 on Sunday May 14, 2017 @06:28PM (#14337905)

This is public knowledge at this point.

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by MichaelGG on Sunday May 14, 2017 @06:35PM (#14337923)

Citation please?

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by laumars on Sunday May 14, 2017 @07:10PM (#14338017)

The NSA hoarding / leaking aspect of this vulnerability has been reported by most major news outlets. Even the mainstream ones. Albeit most haven't expanded on that point to the level that Microsoft did here.

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by MichaelGG on Sunday May 14, 2017 @11:49PM (#14339021)

Sorry I misread it as the NSA was developing the holes as in backdoors, intentionally creating the vulnerability.

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by dredmorbius on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:52AM (#14340594)

Effectively, that's what happened.

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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by detaro on Sunday May 14, 2017 @07:14PM (#14338027)

This (as far as I know) was one of hte first reports of details of the malware and clearly mentions it, and other analysts haven't said otherwise, which by now they would have if they disagreed: http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/05/wannacry.html

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