The US should offer a bounty for the heads of virus writers.
At what point will companies STOP outsourcing their IT to China, India and Russia? Cybersecurity is one area that pundits will never speak about truthfully. The fact is is that banks, governments, technology companies, etc. hire or use foreign programmers. Those programmers mostly come from the the three countries I mention. I used to work for one of the largest banks in the world. They entrusted most of their entire trading platform, business operations and commercial banking operations to Shanghai programmers who were not even employees. Why? Because a Shanghai computer contractor cost less than $20,000 a year rather than an American working out of the bank’s HQ in New York who cost at least $150,000. This is not a surprise, and my peers were concerned about what could happen. Management did not care. As with moslem terrorism, the powers that be have allowed it to get to where it is now.
And the general public must live with the ramifications.
Love seeing people get screwed over in a big way by a vulnerability that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
It’s like the real world was never taken into account when they thought up the ‘lets create a single, massive point of failure’ idea.
It’s happening in Spain as well.
Every NHS failure will now be blamed on this attack and the only solution is more tax dollars.