[Peace-discuss] Worldwide Cyber Attack today

[Roger Helbig]

Snowden is probably as much at fault as anyone - his initial theft probably
was exploited by Russian hackers - he is NO HERO, just a common thief

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> (removing Peace from Cc...)
>
> There's a good article about this on Common Dreams this afternoon --
>
> It used an Windows vulnerability discovered by the NSA years ago, but only
> revealed to Microsoft after the NSA tools were leaked. Microsoft released a
> fix pretty quickly - in March - but organizations that don't often update
> their software remained vulnerable. The NSA could have told Microsoft years
> earlier.
>
> The argument: don't hang on to discovered security holes because "only us
> good guys know about them", since of course it doesn't stay that way.    As
> Edward Snowden said today, this is the consequence.
>
>      https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/12/nsa-tools-
> built-despite-warnings-used-global-cyber-attack
>
>
> On 5/12/17 7:44 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote:
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>
> I saw it this morning on Sky News International, NHS was hit, at least 40
> or their hospitals and organizations. Only later was I able to acquire the
> link below from RT.com <http://rt.com>
>
>
>
> https://www.rt.com/usa/388187-leaked-nsa-exploit-ransomware/
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