In this age of digital life, you can't trust anyone. Today, our IT team was urgently being called to check on the systems due to this -> https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/what-you-need-know-about-wannacry-ransomware.
All systems, yes, all of them, check to ensure that we had applied the patch MS17-010 for all the Windows Servers. Some projects were just using WSUS, so it was quite a tedious effort to check as the report from it isn't that user friendly, and not to mention that Microsoft changed the way their patches are release, now as rollups, not more using bulletin IDs.
Not to mention that another weekend was burnt due to this, whatever plan you have, had to be scraped, postponed or re-scheduled, much to the disappointment of your family and kids. In IT, at least in this part of the world, you are basically on 24/7 standby, even after office hours. Many years back, we were using pagers, you get paged, you can call back a little later, but now, there's handphone with IM like WhatsApp, Line, WeChat, etc. You get disturbed almost every day and night.
I just want to have a peaceful sleep every night, and spend more time with my family.
