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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by rdiddly on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:52PM (#14648138)
And so now it's in the hands of people who have no such foresight. Which means soon it will be mitigated. Which means that despite all the pain right now, in the long run Wikileaks actually may end up having kind of helped humanity.
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by willstrafach on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:15PM (#14648371)
> Which means soon it will be mitigated.

It was fixed in a security patch one month before the Shadow Brokers leak. All computers affected by this ransomware outbreak (and WannaCry) were those who decided not to patch.

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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by rdiddly on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:22PM (#14648449)
I suppose with the word "mitigation" kind of already having a connotation in the security community, I probably shouldn't have used it without making clear that I wanted the term to include its more banal implications such as "install the patch" and/or "get your systems off that old-ass OS!"
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by boomboomsubban on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:54PM (#14649338)
Wikileaks was not involved, they're securely posting CIA documents.
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