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* Posts by 87red

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Expired cert... Really? #O2down meltdown shows we should fear bungles and bugs more than hackers

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I wonder why networks don't have a roaming agreement in place for such catastrophic events. The events yesterday would have cost o2 £millions in bad publicity, yet if there was the ability for them to allow customers to temporarily roam to say EE or Vodafone this could all be avoided.

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UK hospital meltdown after ransomware worm uses NSA vuln to raid IT

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Another waller address shown in a screenshot on BBC News was also paid, 0.16321544 BTC to https://blockchain.info/address/12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8isjr6SMw

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87red

Here is a screenshot of the claimed randsomware: https://twitter.com/LawrenceDunhill/status/863032679595421696/photo/1

Looking up that bitcoin address it appears that someone has paid the ransom 0.15 BTC ($267, a bit short of the $300 requested).

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