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Posted on 05-14-17 10:17:49 AM Link | Quote
Wikipedia article.

You've probably already heard of this. Then again, you should, it's kinda bad.

An exploit known as EternalBlue was used by the NSA to invade computers running Windows for quite some time now. On March 14th, a Windows Update patch was made available for Vista, 7, 8.1 and 10. On April 14th, the exploit was leaked on the internet by a hacker group. And two days ago, on May 12th, a widespread ransomware that used that exploit spread very quickly throughout the world, taking down systems from organizations such as FedEx, Renault, Telefónica and even a part of the government in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. After the attack, Microsoft released a patch for older systems such as Windows XP, Server 2003 and Windows 8.0.

The attack was mostly controlled due to what is believed to be a programming mistake, thankfully. The program tries to connect to a website that doesn't exist and send data to it. Someone registered the domain to analyze the data and the program is now having a harder time spreading from system to system. There's been warnings, though, that other variations can and probably will be made without this error, and unpatched systems should still be patched as soon as possible.

These are very recent news so there might be some inaccuracies here and there, so I recommend doing some reading about it if you can. Now's one of the few times where we might actually have to install an Windows Update, for those of us that like to keep it disabled most of the time. Make sure you keep shady telemetry updates away though (not many and I believe they're all optional updates, there's a few lists of them online if you want to know which ones to avoid).

Here's a few links to some Microsoft sites, regarding the vulnerability patch:

For Windows Vista, 7, 8.1, 10 and Server (2008, 2012 and 2016): Link
For Windows XP, 8 and Server 2003: Link
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Posted on 05-14-17 10:22:40 AM Link | Quote
And as of today, there are reports that there are versions that lack the website check.

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Posted on 05-14-17 05:12:22 PM Link | Quote
Yep, updated versions have been released that lack the killswitch. Make sure you keep your systems up to date!

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Posted on 05-14-17 07:48:56 PM Link | Quote
Sad that this stuff doesn't surprise me, the NSA want all these different companies to build backdoors into things despite the fact that they're obviously not going to be the only people using them

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Posted on 05-15-17 01:21:09 AM Link | Quote
Now is a good time as any to backup your hard drive(s).
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Posted on 05-16-17 02:33:08 PM Link | Quote
And probably not so much getting a new laptop.

Thought it was bad, had a special announcement at work last Friday on the PA regarding a security update, implying IT would be working over the weekend as well, and I kinda put two and two together with the news, but I didn't think it was this bad.

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Posted on 05-17-17 11:39:27 AM Link | Quote
GNU dotUser 2.1.2-git        File: ~/.user/makepost.py
The vulnerability it exploits is something Microsoft has been wanting to kill for a long time now, too. So on top of patching, may as well just disable the entire feature (SMBv1 Protocol or whatever, ancient server communication method that should be long gone by now anyway)

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Posted on 05-18-17 12:18:46 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by dotUser
may as well just disable the entire feature (SMBv1 Protocol or whatever, ancient server communication method that should be long gone by now anyway)

That's what I did. Googling what it was, it looked ancient and I figured disabling it probably wouldn't break much. If it does then I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
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