"WannaCry" cyberattack explained — Transcript

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1. 0:00imagine this your computer has just been
2. 0:02hacked and you can't access your files
3. 0:05till you pay the hackers or ransom
4. 0:07sounds like a scene out of a movie right
5. 0:09but that's exactly what happened
6. 0:11recently when one a cry ransomware was
7. 0:13released and here's how it all went down
8. 0:15hackers took advantage of a flaw in
9. 0:17Microsoft which had actually been
10. 0:19discovered earlier by the NSA the hacker
11. 0:22group this shadow brokers tapped into
12. 0:24the highly classified NSA data and
13. 0:26released it amid knowledge the recent
14. 0:29attack happened when an unidentified
15. 0:30cyber gang picked up the malware and
16. 0:33scanned computers globally releasing a
17. 0:35virus that went looking for victims who
18. 0:37hadn't updated the Microsoft software in
19. 0:39the last two months as a result
20. 0:41hospitals businesses governments and
21. 0:44personal computers were affected in over
22. 0:46150 countries Microsoft said the
23. 0:49governments of the world should treat
24. 0:51this attack as a wake-up call and
25. 0:52compared to the severity to the US
26. 0:55military having some of its Tomahawk
27. 0:57missile stolen here's what Edward
28. 0:59Snowden had to say if at NSA gov had
29. 1:02privately disclosed the flaws used to
30. 1:04attack hospitals when they found it not
31. 1:07when they lost it this may have not
32. 1:09happened there are those who predict
33. 1:10another attack is on the way microsoft
34. 1:13recommends turning on automatic updates
35. 1:15to prevent these sorts of threats so are
36. 1:17you giggle war