On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Mirimir
On 05/15/2017 02:22 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
Wannacry hit on 2017-05-12 using exploit generously donated by the NSA. For supported windozes the bug was fixed in 2017-03 for unknown reasons. Looks like for unsupported windozes like XP the patch was released on 2017-05-13 after Wannacry hit: http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012598 Is it really so?
That's what I've read. Microsoft provided patches in March for nominally unsupported Windows versions with custom support contracts. The NHS, for example, had dropped its XP support contract in ~2014. Cheap bastards ;)
To be fair, it wasn't the NHS that dropped that contract, it was the Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. The NHS actually made a bit of noise about just how stupid it was at the time. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk