{"id":443,"date":"2017-05-15T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k2dls.net\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T17:25:19","slug":"wanna-cry-patches-for-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/15\/wanna-cry-patches-for-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanna Cry Patches for XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you still have an XP machine running somewhere that you just cannot upgrade right away, Microsoft has released a patch for the <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_10-security\/wanna-cry-ransomware\/5afdb045-8f36-4f55-a992-53398d21ed07\">Wanna Cry vulnerability<\/a>.  This is the vulnerability that was exploited in recent days to hold up the United Kingdom&#8217;s National Health Service and many other organizations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/wannacry-wanna-detector-accident-and-emergency-patient-appointment-operation-a7734831.html\">for ransom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although Microsoft stopped official support for Windows XP some time ago, the release of this patch for an unsupported product underscores the severity of the matter.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-05-14\/microsoft-slams-nsa-letting-its-hacking-tools-cause-global-malware-epidemic\">tool used<\/a> is said to have come out of the United States National Security Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=55245\">link to the official Microsoft download<\/a>.  Patch away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you still have an XP machine running somewhere that you just cannot upgrade right away, Microsoft has released a patch for the Wanna Cry vulnerability. This is the vulnerability that was exploited in recent days to hold up the United Kingdom&#8217;s National Health Service and many other organizations for for ransom. Although Microsoft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/15\/wanna-cry-patches-for-xp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wanna Cry Patches for XP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,6],"tags":[54,53,52],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infosec","category-politics","category-technology","tag-nsa","tag-wanna-cry","tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}