by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 20, 2017
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last modified
Jun 07, 2017 12:55 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Computer security experts said the current attack could have been much worse but for the quick action of a young researcher in Britain who discovered a vulnerability in the ransomware itself, known as WanaCryptor 2.0. It has, however, retweeted a blog post by Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft, who directs much of the blame toward the USA government, arguing that it should have alerted the $524 billion tech titan about the problem.
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