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> 1. Over 80% of breaches happen because of KNOWN but unfixed vulnerabilities.

EQUIFAAAAAAAAAAAAAX!!!!!!!!!

(Yes, the Equifax hack was due to a widely-known vulnerability in Apache Commons that apparently the DHS warned about but Equifax didn't bother to patch it.)

Also, knowing that hospital equipment still runs Windows XP (with some sturdy-but-aged machines running Windows 2000), I'm not sure if there's any good benefit for this. Sure, small businesses might take action on a genuine oversight but larger businesses tend to know already that their systems are insecure (even when taking state-level/sponsored attack out of the equation).




> Also, knowing that hospital equipment still runs Windows XP

You don't need to connect your MRI scanner to the internet.




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