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Newspapers, TV, Radio and Internet have been full of reports about ransomware attacks WannaCry, NotPetya and so on. This short article is not going to repeat those reports but to acknowledge that there is a new FREE tool "Eternal Blues" that helps businesses and consumers to find out, at the push of a button and scan of the network, whether the access point Server Message Block (SMB) version 1 (

Investigations into mobile activity tend largely to concentrate on recovering data from the user handset, mast (tower) data and call records. The core network (CN) is less well understood and therefore picking through a GSM/3GPP standard can often assist in understanding the identity and form of tarried/empheral data surviving in a network. The standard to be used for this discussion is: 3GPP TS