{"id":210660,"date":"2017-05-15T07:38:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T05:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=210660"},"modified":"2017-05-15T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T05:40:09","slug":"microsoft-says-wannacrypt-attack-a-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/210660-microsoft-says-wannacrypt-attack-a-wake-up-call.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says WannaCrypt attack a wake-up call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/on-the-issues\/2017\/05\/14\/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack\/#sm.00000s7nvnuh49dexqjde3ngb6l2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft said<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0the governments of the world should treat the recent WannaCrypt attack as a wake-up call.<\/p>\n<p>The WannaCrypt ransomware has spread globally, blocking victims from accessing their PC&#8217;s data unless they pay a ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Exploits used in the attack were drawn from exploits stolen from the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>On 14 March, Microsoft released a security update to patch this vulnerability and protect its customers.<\/p>\n<p>While this protected newer Windows systems and those with updates on, many computers remained unpatched.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, hospitals, businesses, and governments were affected.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said there\u00a0are important lessons to be learned from the WannaCrypt attack, and has stated the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Microsoft must address these issues. This included the release of the patch in March and an update on Friday to Windows Defender to detect the WannaCrypt attack.<\/li>\n<li>The attack demonstrates how cybersecurity has become a shared responsibility between tech companies and customers.<\/li>\n<li>This attack provides an example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;The governments of the world should treat this attack as a wake-up call,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey need to take a different approach and adhere in cyberspace to the same rules applied to weapons in the physical world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need the tech sector, customers, and governments to work together to protect against cybersecurity attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/210624-wannacry-ransomware-details.html\">WannaCry ransomware \u2013 The details<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said the governments of the world should treat the recent WannaCrypt attack as a wake-up call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123,43156,807],"class_list":["post-210660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft","tag-wannacrypt","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210668,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210660\/revisions\/210668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}