{"id":108518,"date":"2020-06-10T19:30:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/homeland-security-warns-of-windows-worm"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T02:30:04","slug":"homeland-security-warns-of-windows-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/homeland-security-warns-of-windows-worm","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security warns of Windows worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/homeland-security-warns-of-windows-worm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Homeland Security\u2019s cybersecurity advisory division is cautioning Windows 10 users of the possibility of a wave of cyberattacks due to the recent publication of an exploit code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalicious cyber actors are targeting unpatched systems with the new [threat],\u201d the agency noted on the Homeland Security web site. The agency said it \u201cstrongly recommends using a firewall to block server message block ports from the internet and to apply patches to critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agency also referred concerned parties to Microsoft\u2019s security guidance posts and notes published by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team at us-cert.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Homeland Security\u2019s cybersecurity advisory division is cautioning Windows 10 users of the possibility of a wave of cyberattacks due to the recent publication of an exploit code. \u201cMalicious cyber actors are targeting unpatched systems with the new [threat],\u201d the agency noted on the Homeland Security web site. The agency said it \u201cstrongly recommends using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}