[Peace-discuss] Worldwide Cyber Attack today

[Carl G. Estabrook]

One of the very few authentic American heroes of the vicious SW Asian wars.


> On May 12, 2017, at 8:25 PM, Roger Helbig via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
> (removing Peace from Cc...)
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> There's a good article about this on Common Dreams this afternoon --
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>      https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/12/nsa-tools-built-despite-warnings-used-global-cyber-attack <https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/12/nsa-tools-built-despite-warnings-used-global-cyber-attack>
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> 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/>
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>> https://www.rt.com/usa/388187-leaked-nsa-exploit-ransomware/ <https://www.rt.com/usa/388187-leaked-nsa-exploit-ransomware/> 
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