>The only people to blame are those that don't follow manufacturers instructions. And even then if you absolutely can't upgrade that XP machine running an MRI

>The only people to blame are those that don't follow manufacturers instructions. And even then if you absolutely can't upgrade that XP machine running an MRI then there are best practices to segregate and isolate it from the network properly. I'm getting a little sick of the people with an anti-whatever axe to grind pretending this was some big sophisticated attack that only nation states can do. This patch was released months ago, there's no excuse not to have it. It was just one of the hundreds of Windows exploits found per year. If admins aren't upgrading their equipment or segregating them properly then that's on them. Note, there was no NSA leak for Conficker, codered, heartbleed, slammer, etc. This stuff will not stop unless admins and management take security more seriously. No admin, myself included, had any issues this weekend. It was completely avoidable.