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Microsoft won't patch SMB flaw that only an idiot would expose

Peter2 Silver badge

Re: Enough said

Not really on the internet, but guess what caused the so-damn-fast spread of the wannacry in the NHS... the nationwide private WAN has SMB wide open to and from basically anything. And it is still open now.

When I was working in NHS IM&T we treated the N3 as an externally facing internet connection so every site had it's own firewall. No doubt you can find single site trusts basically without IT staff that are incompetently setup, but there is really no such entity as "THE NHS", it's a patchwork of hundreds of different trusts all running things in radically different ways.

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