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store important stuff on external hard drives never download suspicious stuff specially from emails
As if this attack purely relied on people clicking on emails. Maybe that's 1 person out of 10.000 but obviously this used various other methods to spread.
> with WannaCry it was alleged a nation state was likely responsible for spreading the malware: North Korea Is there any evidence for this? Looks like another fake rumor.
store important stuff on external hard drives never download suspicious stuff specially from emails
As if this attack purely relied on people clicking on emails. Maybe that's 1 person out of 10.000 but obviously this used various other methods to spread.
Wanna cry spread to computer connected to network but individuals at home probably aren't connected to a local network unless there are multiple computers
A friend sent me the bitcoin address, they've already collected 2600$. [EDIT] Now 3230$ Source: https://blockchain.info/address/1Mz7153HMuxXTuR2R1t78mGSdzaA...
store important stuff on external hard drives never download suspicious stuff specially from emails
That's not enough anymore: good ransomware will look for backup systems and wipe those out before proceeding. You need read-only, airgapped backups before you can consider yourself safe.
The Netherlands and various other countries have created laws where either their version of the NSA and/or police can hoard 0days to be used for hacking. This massive outbreak is so widespread that at this stage it appears that it either was a very recent 0day or something which only recently was fixed by a patch. Instead of having loads of countries hoarding security problems I highly encourage a focus on security i…
In theory, yes. In practice, the reality may be more complicated. How many ongoing investigations and clandestine operations rely on 0days that could be patched tomorrow? Even if this weren't the case somehow, I could imagine intelligence chiefs and the like defending their 0days as necessary on public safety or national security grounds. Edit: just to clarify, I believe 0days should be reported and patched to make e…