{"id":217858,"date":"2017-07-03T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T06:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=217858"},"modified":"2017-07-03T08:09:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T06:09:17","slug":"windows-10-update-reminder-to-keep-computers-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/217858-windows-10-update-reminder-to-keep-computers-safe.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 update reminder to keep computers safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users who run Windows 10 version 1507 <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4023814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>will start receiving<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0security update notifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWindows 10 version 1507 is currently at end of service, which means devices running these operating systems will no longer receive the monthly security and quality updates,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the updates contain protection against the latest security threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo continue receiving security and quality updates, Microsoft recommends updating to the latest version of Windows 10.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The update notifications form part of Microsoft\u2019s initiative to fight ransomware attacks \u2013 like <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/217410-notpetya-is-very-different-and-much-worse-than-wannacry.html\"><strong>NotPetya<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/216560-wannacry-ransomware-shuts-down-honda-plant.html\">WannaCry<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 which crippled many computer systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most secure Windows device today is an updated one: running both the most recent feature update and the most recent monthly quality update,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2017\/06\/30\/ensuring-windows-10-devices-date-never-important\/#gIgGyA4mhb8FxHEc.97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn each monthly quality update, we add another layer of security, one that tracks emerging and changing trends in malware to make up-to-date systems safer in the face of changing and evolving threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/217410-notpetya-is-very-different-and-much-worse-than-wannacry.html\">NotPetya is very different and much worse than WannaCry<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users who run Windows 10 version 1507 will start receiving security update notifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":217860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[801,123,44180,43154,26970],"class_list":["post-217858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-malware","tag-microsoft","tag-notpetya","tag-wannacry","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217858"}],"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=217858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217884,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217858\/revisions\/217884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}