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<div class="">Like many of you, we have been following the malicious ransomware attacks against unpatched Windows machines since the reports started coming out on Friday. We believe we have a shared responsibility to collaboratively get this under control.
 We have published or participated in a few pieces of content today:<br class="">
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<div class="">1. A blog post from our CITO Olaf Kolkman:  <b class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> It's Up To Each Of Us: Why I WannaCry For Collaboration</b></div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2017/05/its-each-us-why-i-wannacry-collaboration" class="">https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2017/05/its-each-us-why-i-wannacry-collaboration</a></div>
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<div class="">For those who do social sharing, we've shared this post out on our social channels at: </div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/internetsociety/status/864188130085285888" class="">https://twitter.com/internetsociety/status/864188130085285888</a></div>
<div class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/posts/10154268800223239" class="">https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/posts/10154268800223239</a></div>
<div class=""><a href="https://plus.google.com/+InternetSociety/posts/cwZqPQ5w17T" class="">https://plus.google.com/+InternetSociety/posts/cwZqPQ5w17T</a></div>
<div class=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/6269953819854065664" class="">https://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/6269953819854065664</a></div>
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<div class="">2. We participated in a press release with CIGI: <b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Global survey reveals that most people are ill-equipped to deal with ransomware</b></div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://www.cigionline.org/articles/global-survey-reveals-most-people-are-ill-equipped-deal-ransomware" class="">https://www.cigionline.org/articles/global-survey-reveals-most-people-are-ill-equipped-deal-ransomware</a></div>
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<div class="">A quote from Kathy appears near the top.</div>
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<div class="">We've shared this out on Twitter, as has Kathy:</div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/internetsociety/status/864190593647431681" class="">https://twitter.com/internetsociety/status/864190593647431681</a></div>
<div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/KathrynCBrown/status/864199693399719936" class="">https://twitter.com/KathrynCBrown/status/864199693399719936</a></div>
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<div class="">We plan to have more articles with other viewpoints over the next few days.</div>
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<div class="">If any of you can help share those pieces, we greatly appreciate it.  Also, if your chapter publishes any articles of your own (in any language), please do let me know so that we can share those with others.</div>
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<div class="">Thank you,</div>
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Dan York<br class="">
Senior Manager, Content & Web Strategy, Internet Society<br class="">
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