http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05 ... ng-ransom/
Poor people affected in hospitals!!Dominic Marley, a hospital doctor in the Manchester area, said it would be a “miracle if no one comes to harm”.
More reasons for using Linux?
Poor people affected in hospitals!!Dominic Marley, a hospital doctor in the Manchester area, said it would be a “miracle if no one comes to harm”.
bester69 wrote:STOP 2030 globalists demons, keep the fight for humanity freedom against NWO...
More reasons not to use Windows XP!bester69 wrote: [...]More reasons for using Linux?
Interestingly enough, MS provides security patches for XP and 2003 as well. The impact is so massive that they basically had to but still, good for them I think.RU55EL wrote:More reasons not to use Windows XP!bester69 wrote: [...]More reasons for using Linux?
Yes, on another forum one user said they were running Mint and they still got it, I don't know if that's true though. EDIT: Apparently it's not true, it was only written for Windows.VentGrey wrote:Apparently Linux systems are vulnerable too, in my compulsive paranoia I disabled root acc and set all my firewalls to high, and im scanning every 2 hours, I really don't want some ransomware here
My current day job is in the NHS and we were using XP in our trust till about 2015. The biggest problem is the users though, most admins and clinicians are very IT illiterate. They know how to use email, Word, the software for their clinic and that's it. It's highly likely that many would open an email attachment without thinking about it or understanding what they could be doing. As for the system admins, I can't really comment, I hardly ever come into contact with them.bester69 wrote:ransomware cyber attack spreads worldwide
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05 ... ng-ransom/
Poor people affected in hospitals!!Dominic Marley, a hospital doctor in the Manchester area, said it would be a “miracle if no one comes to harm”.
"truly this is the year of the Linux desktop"Lysander wrote:Update, it can affect Linux. Through WINE
https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/sta ... 5787925505
nice.And also this user managed to infect his Gentoo install by running Firefox as root.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1060828.html
I've read that it's a bad idea to pay ransomware since there's no guarantee you'll get your data. I take it that's the case here then.phenest wrote:I heard this on the news today. However, it is old news. I'm came across this ransomware on a friends computer several years ago. It's very old and the author has long since gone. Anybody who falls victim to this is basically screwed. Bye, bye data.
Just read about this, so somebody somewhere is developing this.dasein wrote: And some bad news....
http://thehackernews.com/2017/05/wannac ... ttack.html
Just updated my wife's computer this afternoon [W7], hadn't been updated for months. Will get the backups going. Yes I know it's daft but so many people find updating boring, intrusive and a waste of time on Windows. I can see how so many people got done over.dasein wrote:Anyone who (a) isn't infected and (b) hasn't backed up in the last 24 hours, is, simply put, an idiot.
Every report I've read says that the specific vulnerability it exploits was reported relatively recently (March 2017). However, the underlying vulnerability itself actually resides in SMBv1, which is old, old, old. That's why XP is affected.Lysander wrote:One question, if it's old, how has it reappeared?
VentGrey wrote:Apparently Linux systems are vulnerable too, in my compulsive paranoia I disabled root acc and set all my firewalls to high, and im scanning every 2 hours, I really don't want some ransomware here
bester69 wrote:STOP 2030 globalists demons, keep the fight for humanity freedom against NWO...