From: FredW <fredw@ninmule.invalid>

On Mon, 15 May 2017 20:52:07 +0100, "Ant" <not@home.today> wrote:

>"FredW" wrote:
>> All those that replied have clearly no idea whatsoever of IT-matters.
>> They give only politically desirable answers (they think).
>
>Neither do the people running the affected networks and systems,
>apparently. They should be fired.
>
>> And this massive attack of ransomware was caused by the NSA and the USA.
>
>Not really. People (amd Microsoft) should have woken up in 2003 when
>the Sever Mesage Block (SMB) software listening on port 445 was first
>exploited by the Blaster worm. There is no reason for SMB to be
>listening for incoming internet connections and no excuse for not
>firewalling this port.

Further reading showed me you are right.

(ever more facts are appearing how this originated.)

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Fred W. (NLD)
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