In essence, to avoid offending the windows fans, the exploit release was a pretty public event, all over the news if i can remember, Microsoft did their due diligence, and released a patch for it, most people patched their rigs, those tho didn't are now screaming wolf...
On May 12, 2017 Friday 20:05:04 Sam Khangyi wrote: > Specially if they didn't patch their windows since March ... we are talking > the middle of May here, what excuse would they have for not patching. > > On May 12, 2017 Friday 17:54:01 caziz wrote: > > Criminals used leaked NSA cyberweapon in crippling ransomware attack, > > > > experts say > > > > The attackers exploited a software bug that was also used by U.S. > > > > spies, and patched by Microsoft in March > > > > > > > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-cyber-weapon-code-> > > > 1. 4113156 > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying