[Libloather]

Russians?

[preacher]

l8r

[glorgau]

Let’s see, they pay the $65K and then nothing happens...

[wastedyears]

Why have that stuff connected to the internet? Don’t these people know about VPNs and firewalls?

[a fool in paradise]

How much did they pay Hillary Clinton for her cybersecurity lecture?

[srmanuel]

I think most people would be shocked to find out how easy this kind of attack is to pull off.

The NSA in the recent past had a major security breach when their most sensitive computer hacking tools were released to the internet along with their source code.

I am 100% certain these tools quickly made their way around the Dark Web and have been used and enhanced since their release.

In this article, it was an employee who opened an attachment in an infected email that caused the outbreak.

The problem is VPNs, Firewalls, etc...won’t help is people are careless which is what happened this time.

That’s why of all the SHTF situations I’m most afraid of Cyber Attacks, a relatively few people armed with nothing more than a laptop can cause massive damage.

In this case, the cost of protection is much higher than most municipal governments can afford compared to the attacker who only needs a laptop and internet connection.

[foreverfree]

Bump

[rawcatslyentist]

Just how long will the ransomed comp system be safe from another kidnapping?

Not bloody long!

[upchuck]

Guess they don’t have backup. Very ignorant. The mayor sounds like a total fool in quotes in the article.

[Nuc 1.1]

At some point we are all going back to paper. The cost of using computers due to oppression and crime will become prohibitive.

[MV=PY]

City tax dollars at work!

[Keyhopper]

So computers were supposed to make our lives better?

[Waverunner]

Fire the IT manager...
Anyone ever hear of backups.
Scrub the hard drives, reformat them and restore the system.
That's system management 101.
So at most you lose a single days activities.
Or buy new drives and install them. then restore.
It's better than paying crooks 600k.
What council persons brother in law is running their IT.

[New Jersey Realist]

Don’t they have backups????

[Joe Boucher]

To set the stage,
Riviera Beach is a predominately black neighborhood cept beachside where rich white folk live and pay most of the cities taxes
Mayors, city council members, police officers of all levels have been put in prison due to corruption.
Now if you care to score some dope or get stabbed in a local bar, this may just be your kind of place.

[1Old Pro]

Albany, NY was hacked, but MUM on their payment. Even though it’s public money, Dems hide stuff.

[dinodino]

What a bunch of idiots. They should have spent some of the $600k on hiring competent IT staff instead.

[foreverfree]

There's also a Riviera Beach, Maryland. My great aunt (RIP) and great uncle (her husband, RIP to him too) pronounced it Ri-VEER-uh Beach, as I guess all the locals did.

ff