Wanna cry ransomware attacking the world and our future

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On Friday, the world has experienced the ransomware attack on the whole world. The virues as known as the wanna cry ransomware and the wanna crypt and this make shock the whole world. This wanna cry virues attack in the different places of the world. The almost attack the half of our world from this virues.

This virues leaked last month by a group called the Shadow Brokers.

Before the malware could do damage in the United States, a lone British researcher, known as MalwareTech. They are kill switch the registration of a domain name while on vacation. The ease with which MalwareTech says a great deal. But about the poor state of the global information security industry, and raises several important questions.

The virues are also attacking in India.The Reserve Bank of India has asked all banks to put in place a software update at ATMs to protect their systems from a malware that has attacked payment systems across the world.

The RBI’s instructions follow malware incidents across the world that have attacked computer systems and blocked crucial data, according to a report in The Times of India.

RBI has asked banks to update specific Windows patches on ATMs urgently. They had also asked not to operate ATM machines unless updates are in place.

The world was quite different three years ago: the Internet of Things was a difficult but growing concept. Today the IoT is a major concern.

If we do not discover greater efficiencies to combat  threats like WannaCrypt, and if we countenance the creation and abandonment of insecure software, we can expect to face a far greater cascade of threats that have the potential to cause significant digital and physical damage. And next time we may not be so lucky for the mishappening with us in future.

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