Windows users should be really worried about the latest NSA leak

"This is not a drill."

So warned Edward Snowden in an April 14 tweet addressing the latest dump of NSA hacking tools by the hacking group known as the Shadow Brokers. And, if the response of the security community is any indication, America's most famous whistleblower has reason to be alarmed. 

According to The Intercept, the Shadow Brokers' April 14 release of previously undisclosed tools has the potential to comprise Windows computers running anything earlier than Windows 10 — and possibly even those using the latest Windows as well. 

That's a lot of computers. 

Matthew Hickey, the co-founder and director of the cybersecurity company Hacker House spelled out his take on the severity of the dump: "In about an hour or so any attacker can download simple toolkit to hack into Microsoft based computers around the globe." Read more...

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