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May

2017

What to expect from your Anti-Virus in times of WannaCry, EternalBlue and others (to come)?

By egeirnaert

Because we are an IT security company, we wanted to estimate the impact of EternalBlue on one of our Windows machines where we removed the Microsoft patch. We need to know the impact and the defense mechanisms in place when a Windows machine is not patched.

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May

2017

What to do against Wannacry: tips & tricks

By egeirnaert

On Friday a new virus Wannacry was launched to infect Windows machines with ransomware and it was very successful until MalwareTech discovered that there was a "kill switch" in the code, so they hijacked the DNS for that domain and stopped the infections spreading.