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Did Microsoft officially stop caring about security or is this more of a fad, like when everything was tiles for a while?
To be fair Microsoft has never cared much about security. See the windows server (a relatively niche os on servers) second entry in this stat: https://www.statista.com/statistics/701020/major-operating-systems-targeted-by-ransomware/.
It is just that nowadays this kind of issues are more in the news because of "russian cyber criminals", while in the past no one really cared.
Not that I complain... Visibility is actually a good thing
It's not relatively niche on SMBs though. It's a major target so it'll always get hit.
It's far less common than linux oses... In any type of servers, including data storages. It is THE major target because it is a bad OS, nowadays primarily used by companies that haven't a good IT. The combination results in that stat... Practically 100 % of successful ransomware attacks on servers is on windows servers, despite overall being much less used than competitors
The more staff a company has, the more chance of mistakes/idiots.
They should have scans to pick a lot of this up though.
If you think that's bad check out Apple right now
please, explain
See Pegasus
That’s not an explanation
https://gprivate.com/66qys
Yeah, neither is that.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2023/09/08/what-to-know-about-ios-1661-apples-emergency-software-update/?sh=40105b615588
Just more links. Come on.
How many links do you need?