Microsoft knew about software vulnerability prior to cyberattack

Monday, May 15, 2017 - 18:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Microsoft knew about the software vulnerability that was exploited by a massive cyberattack over the weekend, and had released a fix in March. But the patch wasn't made available to users with older versions of its operating system until the attack had already hit hundreds of thousands around the world. John Blackstone has more.

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