I follow one of the people who was first to test these exploits out. They're not actually an amateur, but they did forget to patch their test VMs. Just like a lot of the other people who replicated the results.
The thing to be fair about there is that you can install Windows 2012 R2 in a VM in about 15 minutes, but if you want to apply all updates, you could be sitting there for hours.
I built and updated two servers on spinning rust last week and it took six separate reboot cycles and nine total hours.
It probably isn't about "forgetting", as much as considering that there was indication patches were relevant and you wanted to start this research today.
Edit: It's easy to call people "amateurs" in hindsight, and not necessarily fair.
I built and updated two servers on spinning rust last week and it took six separate reboot cycles and nine total hours.
It probably isn't about "forgetting", as much as considering that there was indication patches were relevant and you wanted to start this research today.
Edit: It's easy to call people "amateurs" in hindsight, and not necessarily fair.