<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Enrique,<br><br></div>Please, do re-read this : "Something that many security researchers have feared has indeed come
true. Threat actors have integrated a critical exploit taking advantage
of a <span style="background-color:rgb(255,0,0)">popular communication protocol used by Windows systems</span>, crippling
thousands of computers worldwide with ransomware."<br><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-05-15 15:32 GMT+00:00 Enrique Chaparro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:echaparro@vialibre.org.ar" target="_blank">echaparro@vialibre.org.ar</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[[SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC FOR THE LIST]]<br>
<br>
Some quick notes:<br>
1<br>
If you are interested in the worm mechanism spreading<br>
the infection, there's a good article here:<br>
<a href="https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/05/the-worm-that-spreads-wanacrypt0r/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.malwarebytes.com/<wbr>threat-analysis/2017/05/the-<wbr>worm-that-spreads-wanacrypt0r/</a><br>
<br>
2<br>
You may adopt FOSS for many good reasons, but security<br>
is not one of them. Unpatched vulnerabilities in critical<br>
FOSS pieces have lived for years. E.g., 'Dirty Cow'<br>
(CVE–2016–5195) was sitting unnoticed(?) for nine<br>
years; the bug causing CVE-2015-7547 glibc vulnerability<br>
was around for 8 years, etc.<br>
<br>
3<br>
As ecosystems show, diversity is A Very Good Thing™.<br>
However, diversity in the critical Internet infrastructure<br>
is actually very poor. A critical exploit affecting Cisco core<br>
routers may bring the Internet to its knees... and there is<br>
nothing we can do in a highly concentrated, quasi-monopilistic<br>
market.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Enrique<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>*Olévié Ayaovi Agbenyo KOUAMI*<br>Consultant & Formateur Senior en T.I.C.<br>Directeur Général de la société GIDA_OKTETS (SSII)<br><a href="http://www.intic4dev.org/*" target="_blank"></a>Promoteur de l'INTIC4DEV (Institut ds TIC pour le développement)<br>Membre du Conseil d'Administration du FOSSFA (<a href="http://www.fossfa.net" target="_blank">http://www.fossfa.net</a>)<br></div><div>*Eminent National Expert for the World Summit Award (<a href="http://www.wsis-award.org" target="_blank">http://www.wsis-award.org</a>) - *Secrétaire Général de l'ESTETIC - Association Togolaise des professionnels des TIC (<a href="http://www.estetic.tg" target="_blank">http://www.estetic.tg</a> <<a href="http://www.estetic.tg" target="_blank">http://www.estetic.tg</a>>)*<br>Membre de l'Internet Society (<a href="http://www.isoc.org" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.org</a>) - Membre de l'ICANN (<a href="http://www.icann.org" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org</a>) - <br>*Skype : olevie1 FaceBook : @olivier.kouami.7 Twitter : #oleviek Lomé – <br>Togo*<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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