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Here in britain, the key question is how is this able to happen? how is it able to have such a big effect? particularly on the national health system where some 20% of hospitals and health facilities were impacted by the malware. the british government is saying as you heard there from the home secretary that they think they were caught up in this big global event. it wasnt a question of a lack of preparedness but we also know that the security patch for this particular vulnerability within the ...

Happened because of happened because the -backquote perfect storm of conditions including the fact that the hackers used a weapon nice exploit seemingly created by the nsa years ago in leaked online last month that experts urging everyone to install the latest windows update because theres a security patch and it to fix the loophole. they loophole. they released loophole. they released it in march of mind of the attack, microsoft said they decided to release updates for computers running much ol...

Least 100,000 organizations. the director said the attack is unprecedented. >> we are running around 200 global operations against cybercrime each year. though weve never seen anything like this. weve seen the rise of ransom ware becoming the principal threat, but this is something we havent seen before. the global reach is unprecedented. >> experts are urging everyone to install the latest windows update because there is a security patch in it to exposed the loophole. microsoft says they are wo...

Exchange for the files. it impacted 150 countries and 100,000 organizations. experts say the attack is unprecedented. >> we are running around 200 global operations against cybercrime each year. weve never seen anything like this. we have seen the rise of ransom ware becoming a threat but this is something we havent seen before. the global reach is unprecedented. >> they are urging everyone to install the latest windows update because there is a security patch to fix the loophole these hackers e...

>> 200 global operations against cybercrime each year. weve never seen anything like this. weve seen the rise of rent and wire become the cyberthreat. this is something we havent seen before. reporter: experts urge everyone to install the latest windows update because theres a security patch and 96 a loophole the hackers that waited. they released it back in march. microsoft says right now they are working with customers in releasing updates for computers running on older systems. experts told "...

Dollars in exchange for those files. it impacted 150 countries and at least 100,000 organizations. the director says the attack is unprecedented. >> we are running around 200 global operations against cyber crime each year but weve never seen anything like that. we have seen the rise of ransom becoming cyber threat, i think, but this isnt something that we havent seen before. the global reach is inprecedented. >> experts are urging to install the latest windows update because theres a security p...

More than 70 countries. russias interior ministry and fedex among the targets. the worm gets into the computer network first through a bad link in an e-mail then quickly spreads throughout a company locking computers and demanding a $300 ransom in bitcoin. today, the guardian newspaper is reporting that a 22-year-old cyber security researcher may have accidentally activated a kill switch. and at least slowed the spread of this. but he along with microsoft and governments around the world are tel...

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