Wanna Cry? Try Chromebooks.
On Friday, the world experienced the wrath of a well-coordinated ransomware attack, known as Wanna Cry. The global reach was unprecedented. The current estimates suggest that the attack affected over 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries. The attack caused Britain's NHS to cancel surgeries, while crippling a wide array of Russian and Chinese private and public institutions for most of the day, and the had the rest of the world was recoiled in shock. The hackers targeted aged operating systems like Windows XP, which users do not regularly update.
In other words, these hackers didn’t technically exploit a vulnerability in the Microsoft operating system (OS). In fact, the latest release of Microsoft’s OS would have prevented the attack if installed on a computer. The hackers focused on two core problems: 1. Microsoft’s lack of convergence between their OS and the PC; and, 2. The general apathy of the typical user.