http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/tags/ransomware/Recent content in Ransomware on Tony Andrew MeyerHugoen-nzSun, 14 May 2017 19:21:02 +1200http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/2017/05/14/a-better-wannacry-advisory-for-schools/Sun, 14 May 2017 19:21:02 +1200http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/2017/05/14/a-better-wannacry-advisory-for-schools/<p>The Ministry of Education sent out a very poor advisory to schools about &ldquo;WannaCry&rdquo; today, based primarily (from what it seems) on the poor information coming from CERT-NZ. The advisory contains several factual errors, which the Ministry should not be spreading to schools. I&rsquo;ve written an improved advisory (I&rsquo;ll update it as required).</p> <h1 id="an-improved-version-of-an-urgent-message-from-the-ministry-of-education">(An improved version of an) Urgent message from the Ministry of Education</h1> <p>The weekend media reported on a virus called WannaCry (also WannaCrypt, WanaCrypt0r, WCrypt, and WCRY) that infected many computer systems around the world over the last few days, including very prominent organisations such as the NHS in the UK. It appears that few infections have occured in New Zealand, but it is possible that your school may have been, or may be, at risk. We are writing to let you know what you should do, and what we are doing to protect schools.</p>