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Microsoft Won't Patch 20-Yr-Old SMBv1 Vulnerability (You Should Just Turn the Service Off) (onmsft.com)
An anonymous reader shares a news post: Following the recent WannaCry and Petya ransomware attacks, Microsoft recommended all Windows 10 users to remove the unused but vulnerable SMBv1 file sharing protocol from their PCs. This is because both variants of the ransomware actually used the same SMBv1 exploit to replicate through network systems, even though it seems that Petya mostly affected Windows PCs in Ukraine. Anyway, if you haven't turned off the protocol on the PC already, you really should: Not only because new WannaCry/Petya variants could once again use the same vulnerability again to encrypt your files, but because another 20-year-old flaw has just been unveiled during the recent DEF CON hacker conference. The SMB security flaw called "SMBLoris" was discovered by security researchers at RiskSense, who explained that it can lead to DoS attacks affecting every version of the SMB protocol and all versions of Windows since Windows 2000. More importantly, a Raspberry Pi and just 20 lines of Python code are enough to put a Windows server to its knees.
We hear much nowadays from the homosexual community about being "born gay." TV talkshow hosts, the newsmedia and medical professionals have bought into the deception that some people are naturally born HOMOSEXUAL and can't help it. Nothing could be further from the truth.
To say that some people are born homosexual is to say that God makes mistakes. If God creates a man (with a man's reproductive organ), but that man has God-given natural sexual desires for another man, then God made a mistake. The Bible plainly states in Genesis 1:27, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." There is nothing in the Bible about two men getting married, or two women. Same-sex marriage is sinful in the eyes of God.
God doesn't make mistakes! No one is "born gay." God created male and female, and they have natural sexual attractions one for the other, because they have male and female reproductive organs, respectively. The very idea of two men having sexual relations is against nature. In fact, the Word of God states this in Romans 1:24-28. Romans 1:26,27 state: "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet." Clearly, the Bible teaches that heterosexual attraction is natural; BUT homosexuality is abnormal and against nature.
God doesn't make mistakes! No one is "born gay." If you tell me that some people are "born gay," then you are saying that my God makes mistakes, and my God doesn't make mistakes. Why would God give two men a "natural" attraction one-for-the-other, but then they can't mate and reproduce because they both have male reproductive organs? That would be absurd. If homosexual attraction is "natural," then God made a mistake. God doesn't make mistakes! The truth is that no one is "born gay." It's a choice. Homosexuality is a vile lifestyle of lust, Godlessness and shame that one CHOOSES to live.
Job 8:3 and 13-14, "Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? ... So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web."
I don't believe it is ever right to bash gays, but we have a duty as Christians to speak out against the horrible sin of homosexuality. We ought not condemn anyone on a personal level for their sins and mistakes, for God is the only Lawgiver and Judge. James 4:12, "There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?" James 5:9, "Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door." Yet, the Bible teaches for Christians to refute (Greek: elencho, "expose") all works of darkness. Romans 1:24-32 condemns the sin of homosexuality.
We don't have to condemn sin because the Bible already condemns the whole world. We are all sinners (Romans 3:10,19-23). Ephesians 5:11, "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." There is a clear-cut line between preaching against sin as God commands verses condemning someone to be vindictive or mean. The Bible teaches that every work shall be brought into judgment. Ecclesiastes 12:14, "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." God will hold all men accountable for each and every decision they make, and recompense them for the good and for the evil.