Rebekah Brown of Rapid7, a cyber-security company, told Reuters that there are more than 100,000 computers running vulnerable versions of the software, Samba, free networking software developed for Linux and Unix computers which cannot be patched. However, there were no signs yet of attackers exploiting the vulnerability in the 12 hours since its discovery was announced but it took only 15 minutes for the researchers to develop malware.

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