History: "Shadow Brokers" hacked the NSA in April 2016, and leaked the American cyber weapon ETERNALBLUE for the Microsoft Windows system. WannaCry's developers used ETERNALBLUE as the basis of their ransomware (not confirmed by experts), which gains access to a Windows computer, through a Windows vulnerability which was patched by MS on 3/14/17.  "Organizations that lacked this security patch were affected for this reason, and there is so far n...

  IBM has shipped usb flash drives infected with malware code.  The Initialization Tool on the USB flash drive with the partnumber 01AC585 that shipped with the following System models may have an infected file:  IBM Storwize V3500 - 2071 models 02A and 10A IBM Storwize V3700 - 2072 models 12C, 24C and 2DC IBM Storwize V5000 - 2077 models 12C and 24C IBM Storwize V5000 - 2078 models 12C and 24C IBM Storwize Systems with serial numbers starting with the cha...

  Google was the victim of a phishing hack. It was a good one, and a nice guy by the name of Zach Latta actually posted the process on his twitter account as a video:  https://twitter.com/zachlatta/status/859843151757955072/photo/1   "A click on the button loaded the Google Accounts website. Users who use multiple accounts on Google are asked to select one to grant permissions. A click on the name of the developer, Google Docs, reveals right on that page that something i...