Two years ago, in 2017, Microsoft distributed the security update to fix this problem. The issue has nothing to do with the NSA and everything to do with the C

Two years ago, in 2017, Microsoft distributed the security update to fix this problem. The issue has nothing to do with the NSA and everything to do with the City of Baltimore failing to keep their capital equipment, in this case computers, up-to-date applying security and other updates. The article also discuses healthcare systems hacked by other exploits. This again was not caused by the computer virus, but by the fact that Microsoft vendor issued security updates were not applied to the systems. Often there are security upgrades in hardware as well as software which means that the computer hardware needs to be upgraded as well. As is the case with most of these security hacks, it is the failure of the agency to budget appropriately for equipment maintenance and having competent leadership that actually understands the importance of budgeting for and implementing security upgrades including upgrading to the latest version of the OS, in this case, Windows 10.