{"id":1272,"date":"2017-05-16T23:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microdium.net\/public\/2017\/05\/16\/nena-offers-psaps-information-in-light-of-recent-ransomware-attack\/"},"modified":"2017-05-16T23:42:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:42:32","slug":"nena-offers-psaps-information-in-light-of-recent-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2017\/05\/16\/nena-offers-psaps-information-in-light-of-recent-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"NENA Offers PSAPs Information in Light of Recent Ransomware Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microdium.net\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/56e857ed286a0a84c8c0e33ec276bfd0_S.jpg\" alt=\"NENA Offers PSAPs Information in Light of Recent Ransomware Attack\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) said that in light of the recent ransomware attack that hit both private- and public-sector entities in multiple countries, it was not aware of any attacks on public safety answering points (PSAPs) or 911 service.<\/p>\n<p>It said it was issuing a special alert to help its members defend against any attacks that may occur, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cWannaCry\u201d attack leveraged recently released vulnerabilities and exploit techniques to take control of Windows-based computers. The attack software infects vulnerable machines and demands $300 or more in bitcoin. Victims that don\u2019t pay are threatened with deletion of the encryption key, and that renders their data irretrievable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/em\/safety\/NENA-Offers-PSAPs-Information-in-Light-of-Recent-Ransomware-Attack.html\">http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/em\/safety\/NENA-Offers-PSAPs-Information-in-Light-of-Recent-Ransomware-Attack.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nSource: DRJ New feed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) said that in light of the recent ransomware attack that hit both private- and public-sector entities in multiple countries, it was not aware of any attacks on public safety answering points (PSAPs) or 911 service. It said it was issuing a special alert to help its members defend against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disaster-recovery-cybersecurity-news-malaysia","tag-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}