{"id":412,"date":"2017-05-15T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:27:22","slug":"should-we-be-worried-about-wcrywannacry-ransomware-wanacry-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/should-we-be-worried-about-wcrywannacry-ransomware-wanacry-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we be worried about WCRY\/WannaCry Ransomware?  #WanaCry #ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To date, no Igaware customers have been victims of any ransomeware, including the latest WCRY outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure you are protected, make sure that Windows machines have the relevant Microsoft patch &#8211; MS17-010 (SMB RCE). This was release in March 2017. See <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/security\/ms17-010.aspx\">https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/security\/ms17-010.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will stop the ability to install the backdoor on the windows machine that can then be exploited.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s thought that the backdoor is distributed via a phishing email. You will be protected by Igaware Email Filtering if you are using Igaware as your email server.<\/p>\n<p>Any versions of windows XP should have file sharing disabled \/ or disconnected from the network as there is no patch currently available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To date, no Igaware customers have been victims of any ransomeware, including the latest WCRY outbreak. To ensure you are protected, make sure that Windows machines have the relevant Microsoft patch &#8211; MS17-010 (SMB RCE). This was release in March &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/should-we-be-worried-about-wcrywannacry-ransomware-wanacry-ransomware\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QVqI-6E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}