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Four Year On: Two-thirds of Global Firms Still Exposed to WannaCry Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine Over two-thirds (67%) of organizations are still running an insecure Windows protocol largely responsible for the infamous WannaCry and NotPetya attacks of 2017 and 2018, according to new research. Security vendor ExtraHop used its network detection and response (NDR) capabilities to analyze anonymized metadata from an unspecified number of customer networks, in order to better understand where they may be vulnerable to outdated protocols. The resulting security ad...
A new report from cloud-native network detection and response company ExtraHop shows that on the fourth anniversary of the WannaCry attack a high percentage of IT environments are still running known vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable Protocols Leave Firms Open to Further Compromises Companies may no longer have Internet-facing file servers or weakly secured Web servers, but attackers that get by the perimeter have a wide-open landscape of vulnerability. Nearly nine out of every 10 companies have devices that use outdated protocols, such as Microsoft's Server Message Block version 1 for sharing files, giving attackers that breach the network perimeter an easy avenue to extend a compromise, according to a new report by network security firm ExtraHop. Microsoft's SMBv1 protocol, developed in the 1980s and deprec...
May 11, 2021 14:06 EDT with 0 comments As is the case every second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft is releasing cumulative updates for all supported Windows versions. That includes all supported Windows 10 versions, along with Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 customers that have opted to receive extended security updates. As for Windows 10 users, it must be noted that versions 1909, 1809, and 1803 will be reaching the end of support, with 1803 being completely unsupported – including for enterprises – starting today. As for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 (and the corresponding Windows ...