How do people still get caught out with these, especially big companies ? With the greatest respect, you must be some kind of fool to open emails sent from Banks or HMRC.
Scrimping on IT spending plays a big part. Obviously, being in the industry I'm going to say that, but it's true. Since the bean counters took over running IT, staff and systems have been cut to ribbons, and experienced, good people are harder to come by. The end result of this is things like IDS/IPS systems either not installed at all, not being fit for purpose, or being run by people with no experience.
A lot of companies and Govts. still running on Windows XP too as a lot of their bespoke software was built for it - doubt that will help. Presumably some private users don't know it's unsupported now.
How do people still get caught out with these, especially big companies ? With the greatest respect, you must be some kind of fool to open emails sent from Banks or HMRC.
Loads. Probably a similar amount to those who think they've won the Nigerian lottery.
I find it strange that if you're affected with this, your ISP will notify you by email or letter. Whats the point of giving them your contact phone number and you end up with a nasty like this and they write you a letter?
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Just watching the news and a company lost 100k in 3 minutes recently
I find it strange that if you're affected with this, your ISP will notify you by email or letter.
Whats the point of giving them your contact phone number and you end up with a nasty like this and they write you a letter?
I would suggest there's no such thing as 'free' software.