On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Mirimir <[1]mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:

   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:
   > [2]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
   [3]https://www.bentasker.co.uk

References

   1. mailto:mirimir@riseup.net
   2. http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012598
   3. https://www.bentasker.co.uk/