On 2017-06-02 07:40, Per Jessen wrote:
Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 06/01/2017 11:49 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
While the workaround is fine, what about all those routers and NAS boxes out there that will never get updated? Routers with samba? The NAS boxes - if people make them available on the net, well. Run owncloud or some such on them.
Sure, many home routers have file and printer sharing capability.
Really? I was not aware.
Yes. You can connect a USB disk and share it. Also a printer via USB. I saw it first about five years ago.
I think that UPnP could possibly exacerbate the problem too. They don't have to be available on the net if a local machine becomes compromised by some other means. The worm would travel through a private network like snails thorough a goose!
Wasn't there one recently just like that? That one that paralyzed the British NHS and many other places?
Yes, that is worrying, if samba is also vulnerable. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)