Security: Protection Against Cryptware Wannacry

You heard perhaps last day’s about the major problems of Attacks to Systems with the “WannaCry” Crypto Ware

Howto protect yourself?

  • Enable the Firewall on Windows Systems!! Always!
  • Update daily the Virus Scanners and Windows Patches!
  • Disable and CLOSE Ports you never need! SMB Protocol is a open unencrypted Transfer Protocol!
  • Use a second Router with Firewall behind your ISP Router or Modem! (openwrt, pfsense)
  • Check with nmap Portscanner Tool the taken Rules and check if the work!
  • For Network Access use ALWAYS SFTP with Authentification over KEYs Logins (Two Factor: Key and Password for unlock the Keyfiles id_rsa)
  • For fresh installed Systems do a Full Backup of the Disk.
  • To Save your work files use USB Drives or USB Sticks which can be unplugged, if you don’t need them.
  • Backup weekly the Windows Disk to a external USB Disk 1TB sold for less than 50$
  • ..last but not least use a Live CD of Linux like ubuntu to access the Internet..

Update:

  • The Linux Windows Share Service called Samba is also under attack CVE-2017-7494
  • to fix enter smb.conf with a Editor:

nt pipe support = no

  • restart the Service with:

$service samba stop && service samba start

  • Don’t use reload, to be secure that the config is really reloaded!! A “systemd” Problem!
  • Check the Samba Share for write and read access!
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