The city already planned to spend $300,000 for equipment replacements in the next budget and will accelerate that expense, Councilwoman Julie Botel said. Much of the existing hardware was a half-dozen years old and vulnerable to another malware attack, so it was time to replace it anyway, she said.
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None of that will make an ion of difference in a ransomware attack, but the city council and the writer are ignorant of this. Surprised they didn’t blame “Russians”.
The guess is it was a “click on a phoney email” thing.