A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'

Re:A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For' by macrael on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:04AM (#14617148)

I believe it was compounded in this case by the fact that Microsoft did not release the patch to all users. That OS was no longer supported so they only made the patch available to customers who pay for long term support.

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Re:A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For' by nostoc on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:14AM (#14619273)

What OS?

All OSes vulnerable to wannacry are still under support.

Contrary to popular belief, wannacry will not spread to windows XP, it will just crash it. It will run on it if you fire the executable manually, but it will not infect an XP host through SMB.

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Re:A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For' by macrael on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:55PM (#14622709)

Oh? I had heard that NHS didn't have access to the patch but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. I was under the impression that XP was the main vulnerable OS under WannaCry

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Re:A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For' by dmoo on Friday June 23, 2017 @03:00AM (#14617449)

But the point is that if you are not getting paid they are as you say users and not customers.

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Re:A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For' by macrael on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:24AM (#14617732)

The point is that people could have died because Microsoft decided not to release a zero day patch widely. In fact, once WannaCry got bad enough, they did release the patch.

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