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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-attack-idUSKBN19I1TD
A ransomware attack hit computers across the world on Tuesday, taking out servers at Russia's biggest oil company, disrupting operations at Ukrainian banks, and shutting down computers at multinational shipping and advertising firms.
Cyber security experts said those behind the attack appeared to have exploited the same type of hacking tool used in the WannaCry ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers in May before a British researcher created a kill-switch.
"It's like WannaCry all over again," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with Helsinki-based cyber security firm F-Secure.
He said he expected the outbreak to spread in the Americas as workers turned on vulnerable machines, allowing the virus to attack. "This could hit the U.S.A. pretty bad," he said.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it was monitoring reports of cyber attacks around the world and coordinating with other countries.
The first reports of organizations being hit emerged from Russia and Ukraine, but the impact quickly spread westwards to computers in Romania, the Netherlands, Norway, and Britain.
Many recent outages/attacks have a pattern and a UK power grid outage is anticipated.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @12:37PM (3 children)
Actually Windows 1 was perfectly secure against network attacks, as it didn't have any network functionality. :-)
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday June 28 2017, @05:46PM (2 children)
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0#Features [wikipedia.org]
Networking could be added to DOS through third-party software.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by kaszz on Thursday June 29 2017, @01:00AM (1 child)
What would Microstuffed be without Trumpet Winsock? ;-)
That shit could not even handle multiple terminal sessions without freezing. Pile of shit, not that it's any news.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday June 30 2017, @05:21AM
Seems someone mistaken the name for a piece of software written in 1992 for a president of much later date. Trumpet Winsock [wikipedia.org] is actually a software. Obviously some people won't rise above if( /Trump/ ) { anger_attack(); }.