You would be wrong. I work IT in a large hospital system. This is real
Who and what is the motive, in your opinion?
Wasn’t the Russians who hacked hospitals and government offices. It was the filthy Communist Chinese. But hey, saying it’s Russians allow for the Democrat nonsense against Trump to continue
I'm a network engineer and have been in the corporate IT world for over 25 years and 100% agree with you. I've had clients hit with ransomware over the years and they are getting more and more sophisticated.
I heard of this threat from a Secret Service agent.
Do you guys keep offsite backups? My company has had ransomware, but we restored from backup.
My wife got an update today about email and password security. (She works at a large group of hospitals.)
You know some knucklehead is going to click “that link.”
Make sure you have good backups and this will not be a problem.
Our IT people shut down all our computers yesterday afternoon at a major health care provider in NC. Working from home, my VPN connection was lost suddenly. Fortunately I had saved my work about 5 minutes beforehand. Got up to let the dog out, came back and sat down, started to open up another program and ‘poof’...