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Microsoft Gets A Swift Kick In The Ass - Ecks - 06-24-2017
Earlier this month, Microsoft said "no Windows 10 customers were known to be compromised by the recent WannaCry (WannaCrypt) global cyberattack," adding that "no known ransomware works against Windows 10 S." News outlet ZDNet asked a security researcher to see how good Microsoft's claims were. Turns out, not much. From the report:
We asked Matthew Hickey, a security researcher and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Hacker House, a simple enough question: Will ransomware install on this operating system? It took him a little over three hours to bust the operating system's various layers of security, but he got there. "I'm honestly surprised it was this easy," he said in a call after his attack. "When I looked at the branding and the marketing for the new operating system, I thought they had further enhanced it. I would've wanted more restrictions on trying to run privileged processes instead of it being such a short process."
Read More @ http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-no-known-ransomware-windows-we-tried-to-hack-it/
RE: Microsoft Gets A Swift Kick In The Ass - Blink - 06-24-2017
Not surprising.
Like I said: Microsoft is a shitty company
RE: Microsoft Gets A Swift Kick In The Ass - mothered - 06-24-2017
(06-24-2017, 12:30 AM)Ecks Wrote: Earlier this month, Microsoft said "no Windows 10 customers were known to be compromised by the recent WannaCry (WannaCrypt) global cyberattack,"
There's over 400 million devices running Windows 10, and Microsoft claimed to account for each and every one?
This Is a lesson well learned by MS.
RE: Microsoft Gets A Swift Kick In The Ass - Lokes - 06-24-2017
More reason to consider switching OS.
What surprises me tho, is the fact, that they can blatantly lie to their customer like that.
And people still cope with that. In the end it might be the lack of other well-known alternatives, or they simply don't care.