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>>the patch for this was already published few months ago 2 months ago, March 17th, and many organizations do not patch as often as they should, Many have eve

by syshum 10y ago

>>the patch for this was already published few months ago 2 months ago, March 17th, and many organizations do not patch as often as they should, Many have even started delaying longer since MS patches of late have been causing more problems for people breaking Office, Breaking WiFi and breaking other critical systems with MS normal response of "opps our bad, well fix it in another month until then get fucked" > Additionally W10 Win10 has about a 12% Market share, about the same as Windows XP still does. Win10 has not been widely adopted outside the consumer market. >All this, and still WannaCry hit the main evening news, Made the news because of the numbers of systems, and number of high profile systems like Hostipols that were infected not because it was a Technical marvel of malware engineering It also made the news because the NSA is indirectly responsible for not disclosing these vulnerabilities when they were discovered until they weaponized them for their own gain. While I do not blame the NSA for this infaction, I believe they should be forced, today, to disclose to all software vendors any other vulnerabilities they want to play Hacker with....

cpncrunch 10y ago
>Many have even started delaying longer since MS patches of late have been causing more problems for people breaking Office It's not just Office that's an issue, it's Windows Update itself. In late 2016 both a Vista and a Windows 7 machine stopped updating. The windows update service on both just hung at 100% cpu time, not updating anything. I didn't actually realise for a few months. Apparently it's a common problem, and the only solution is to manually download and install all the updates. Even after doing that, the problem kept occurring. I've now upgraded everything to windows 10, and so far no problems.
RubyPinch 10y ago
you can postpone general updates while still having critical/security updates go through at the normal pace And, shouldn't a workplace be setup for re-imaging if updates go wrong? I know its easy to just store files in C:\user\name\documents, but then it makes it just as easy to be forced to pay $300 for each computer in the network
- syshum 10y ago
  Many of these systems infected are server systems, not End User Desktops. That said, yes in a perfect world everyone would have perfect backups, and perfect imaging systems that makes ransomeware a non-event, we do not live in a perfect world and it is easy to monday morning QB the IT Staff. Most IT depts are understaffed and corners are cut because you have to keep your head above water, business do not want to pay for proper staff or proper infrastructure, IT is a "cost center" that should be cut every year in perpetuity, after all everything is working so why do I need to pay you to sit there all day

by syshum 10y ago

cpncrunch 10y ago

>Many have even started delaying longer since MS patches of late have been causing more problems for people breaking Office It's not just Office that's an issue, it's Windows Update itself. In late 2016 both a Vista and a Windows 7 machine stopped updating. The windows update service on both just hung at 100% cpu time, not updating anything. I didn't actually realise for a few months. Apparently it's a common problem, and the only solution is to manually download and install all the updates. Even after doing that, the problem kept occurring. I've now upgraded everything to windows 10, and so far no problems.

RubyPinch 10y ago

you can postpone general updates while still having critical/security updates go through at the normal pace And, shouldn't a workplace be setup for re-imaging if updates go wrong? I know its easy to just store files in C:\user\name\documents, but then it makes it just as easy to be forced to pay $300 for each computer in the network

syshum 10y ago
Many of these systems infected are server systems, not End User Desktops. That said, yes in a perfect world everyone would have perfect backups, and perfect imaging systems that makes ransomeware a non-event, we do not live in a perfect world and it is easy to monday morning QB the IT Staff. Most IT depts are understaffed and corners are cut because you have to keep your head above water, business do not want to pay for proper staff or proper infrastructure, IT is a "cost center" that should be cut every year in perpetuity, after all everything is working so why do I need to pay you to sit there all day