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Heavenly Father, thank You for helping us expose the dangers of software bugs that can inflict damage on thousands of unsuspecting people.
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The bug is one of several high-profile computer-security issues to emerge this week, though the impact isn’t yet clear.

Microsoft said that it hasn’t seen anyone take advantage of the flaw, which affects older versions of its Windows operating system, but that it believes it is “highly likely” the flaw will wind up being exploited by malicious software, now that it has been publicly disclosed….

Any “future malware that exploits this vulnerability could propagate from vulnerable computer to vulnerable computer in a similar way as the WannaCry malware spread across the globe,” Microsoft said Tuesday in a blog post.

The flaw affects Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. It also affects Windows 2003 and Windows XP—older versions of Windows that Microsoft doesn’t typically patch. But, in a sign of the severity of the bug, Microsoft released XP and Windows 2003 patches as well.

“This is certainly one to take seriously,” said Chris Coulter, vice president of technology with BlackBerry Ltd.’s Cylance security group.

Users of Windows 10 and Windows 8 aren’t affected by the flaw, Microsoft said.

WannaCry spread quickly, and infected more than 200,000 systems world-wide with ransomware—software that rendered computer systems unusable and demanded a digital ransom. It affected systems at England’s National Health Service, FedEx Corp. and Nissan Motor Co…. (Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal, article by Robert McMillan)

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Laura Nguyen
May 22, 2019

I pray that people will pay attention and install the patch immediately instead of thinking it can wait. May their defensive actions stop the virus from spreading and protect themselves and others from the ransomware. The Server 2008 has the capacity to infect an entire network of computers if the administrators do not act quickly. Galatians 5:9:”A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.” I praise God that He speaks in metaphors and parables that touch on every aspect of our lives. I thank Him for His faithful love and His constant teachings and warnings to protect us from the world. In the awesome name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, I ask that we be spared a devastating malware attack. Amen.

Alan Keith Veasey
May 19, 2019

Cyber security is a key strategic issue in the modern world. Computers being down means our operations are back in the stone
age with people not knowing how to do things manually and calculate
on paper. Cyber ops can make a power competitive with a super power that does not have both first class security and manual
backup.

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