On 15 May 2017 at 03:48, Edward Finnell < [email protected]> wrote:
> The 'wannacry' exploits security holes in Windows that have been there > forever. M$ released patches for Win7 and Win10(not sure about 8 and 9). > These > were exposed by wikileaks dump of some NSA tricks to backdoor PC's and > networks. > It wasn't Wikileaks; they show at least some sense of responsibility in what they disclose. This was the so-called Shadow Brokers - the guys with the weirdly fake Russian English who last year purported to be auctioning NSA material, and then recently published the key to the encrypted data they had previously published, and which was widely mirrored already. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/05/who_is_publishi.html Schneier thinks it's the Russians, but who of us without clearances (or maybe even with) really knows... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
