Headlines over the past day or so have been dominated by the news that a strain of ransomware has been tearing around the globe infecting more than 120,000 computers.
NHS facilities and services have been hit particularly hard, but so have the likes of telecoms giant Telefonica, banks Santander and BBVA, plus companies and individuals in Russia, Japan and several other countries.
Called WannaCry, but also known as WanaCrypt0r and WCry, the ransomware is infecting computers and encrypting files, before demanding the user pay a ransom for their files to be decrypted.
WannaCry leverages a Windows vulnerability, which Microsoft released a patch for, known as MS17-010, in March. However, many organisations appear to have failed to install this patch, or are running old versions of Windows to which this doesn’t apply....