[Innovative]

This seems to be a really bad, wide-spread attack.

[gaijin]

I see this case as akin to the parent who owns the very most dangerous guns in the world IN A NURSERY, and doesn’t lock up ANY of his guns.

Should that parent own guns..?

[CincyRichieRich]

Stolen NSA tool? Hardly!!!

Given, “it will be on server xyz, here is the password, leave me out of it, my boss says we need to take Trump down and this helps create chaos to hurt him, just leave me out of it, right?”

That is the more likely scenario.

[Innovative]

See also:

FedEx hit as NSA-linked ransomware spreads around the world

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/12/fedex-hit-as-nsa-linked-ransomware-spreads-around-the-world/

[gaijin]

The damages should be paid from the black budget.

The black budget from an intel community which has NO PROBLEM investigating a Prez Candidate.

[Enchante]

So the Windows patch to prevent this has been available for 2 months, and many large organizations such as the UK’s NHS have not bothered to update their security???? I am understanding this correctly?

This seems like IT malfeasance and incompetence of an extraordinary degree. I can understand that random individual users may not keep on top of their security updates, but how can multi-billion dollar (or pound) organizations not maintain the most elementary forms of computer security????

Heads should roll....

[GraceG]

1. Find Hackers and Shoot

2. Dismantle the NSA/CIA/FBI and only keep the things we only absolutely need.

[soycd]

The really bad news is America has the ability to identify each and every one of these scumbags and either take them out quietly or with public honors.

I give Trump a few more cycles to put it together. There is no excuse to allow this filth to get away with it.

[Dallas59]

Lesson 1:

Never open an email attachment.

[House Atreides]

I only took time to read the title but any countries exploiting stolen NSA tools deserve to be hit by hackers.

[Innovative]

Sww also:

Major Cyberattack Sweeps Globe — 2nd Update

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/12/major-cyberattack-sweeps-globe-2nd-update.html

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It’s just Microsoft hacking old software to ensure future sales of new software.

[palmer]

I see people are suggesting updates hoping for security patches. The problem is that 99% of each update is more unnecessary crap, only 1% is security patches. The unnecessary crap just adds new vulnerabilities. MS wants to push you into a "free" continuously updated OS that constantly enables a bigger revenue stream by capturing and selling your personal info.

MS is ransomware lite. They support the hackers by adding new poorly written crap. For example MS now adds a bunch of unnecessary listen ports that can't be uninstalled (but they can be blocked with a non-MS firewall). Intel is almost as bad providing a listen port independent of the OS. It's hard to practice safe networked computing when MS and Intel are making it less safe.

[Caipirabob]

I dunno. I’m more worried about a Microsoft patch taking out my PC than anything else.

[GailA]

FedEx in Memphis was hit.

[Delta 21]

[PLMerite]

See what happens when you encourage “whistle blowers?”