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Please note an unscheduled Windows 10 OS update from Microsoft is affecting 1000's of our customers system-wide. You may not know you have received this unsolicited update from Microsoft, until you go to restart your system, whereupon it may be down for 1.5 - 24 hours applying this service pack.

We recommend everyone restart their machines at a time where it would be convenient go be without it for an extended amount of time (i.e. bedtime).

We are working directly with Microsoft to prevent future events like this from occurring again.

Here are some additional steps for proactively protecting your devices against this dangerous malware.
Card created 3 months agoImportance: High
According to recent reports, massive volumes of JavaScript attachments are being spammed out that contain dangerous ransomware. We recommend taking the following additional precautions to protect your install base:

Make sure your mail protection solution is blocking macro-enabled documents and .js scripts
Ensure that you have blocked user access to downloading Tor by blacklisting the following URL: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html (the Locky virus in particular relies on downloading and installing the Tor browser and some versions may use Tor to contact the command and control servers)
Block any items falling under the category of "proxy avoidance" or "anonymizers." If you use Web Protection, this can be done by going to "Settings > Web Protection > Protection Policy > [select applicable policy] Edit > Web Security > Proxy Avoidance and Anonymizers > Block"
Disable Java in client browsers (for more information, see the following links)
And we suggest that access to the following IPs be completely blocked at the firewall:
5.34.183.195
51.254.19.227
185.14.29.188
31.184.197.119
91.219.29.55
Learn more about the Locky virus here

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35584081
This really underscores complacency in security. Hospitals take years to implement security and best practices, only by the time of deployment, their methods are obsolete. This illustrates perfectly the role of a Managed Services Provider. With our tools we offer up to the second security measures and counter measures. In the unlikely event of a breach like this, we can keep an entire organizations infrastructure co-located in a cloud environment, ready at a moments notice to switch over to a redundant network with zero data loss or down time.

Hollywood hospital held to ransom by hackers - BBC News Computer systems at a Hollywood medical centre have been offline for more than a week following a "ransomware" attack.

Comcast outage this morning affecting approximately 3800 homes. From Brandermillwoods Retirement to Candlewick in Woodlake. Should be resolved in the next 45 minutes. Please power cycle your routers after this time.