WannaCry: An Example in How Lazy Updating Habits Caused Widespread Chaos
You’ve heard of it. Maybe you were affected by it. The recent cyber pandemic, WannaCry, made masses around the world want to do just that; cry. The WannaCry ransomware attack managed to infect over 230,000 computers across the world, landing in 150 countries in just four days before security experts managed to slow the stampede. And how was it able to do that? People didn’t update their computers. If you are anything like me, the little window pop up telling me there are upda