Stop playing around with the Russians, Democrats!
That might explain why DU was down for a week after the election.
Hmmm
Ransom ware attacks don’t generally steal the data, they encrypt it. You pay to get the decryption key.
The Democrats are going to stand on principle and not pay the ransom.After all it’s THEIR money this time.
Usually rasomware encrypts all of one’s data files and then vamooses. Unless you’ve backed up your data offline or you are running W7 pro and have activated and utilized its built-in system protection subsystem, allowed it plenty of space and know how to recover data using Previous Version, then you’re screwed. (BTW, the keys for some ransomware are known and available on the web, and some of the encryption algorithms for other ransomware are known and free tools are available that can figure out the encryption key based on one clear file and one encrypted file and then the key can be used on the rest of ones encrypted files.)
Be that as the above may be, one would think that professional organizations like the PA Dems SHOULD have competent IT staff to keep this kind of crap from happening. I’ve got clients with just a half-a-dozen employees that probably have WAY better protection from badware than the PA Dems.
Resist we much!
Hmmm. Ransom ware TELLS you it has engaged. That’s kind of the point.
The ransom was probably that the Philly soda tax (doubled cost of soda—was effective January 1) be banned by the legislature.
It is really ticking off a lot of folks in that city.
their email system is down because it was the door into their network, and they have no idea how widespread the attack was. the rest of their stuff is down because they don’t have backups.
the severity of the damage is directly related to how crappy their network policies are.
I knew that the Clinton Foundation was desperate, but to eat one’s own young?
No, they drug their heels and the time expired on the offer.
They could not stop it on the suspect system and, being Democrats, they had no backup so they lost it all.
Funny how when you go to deceive others, your own deception can cause your downfall.
For a party that has virtually no concept of security or foresight, this kind of failure is inevitable.
There are two ways to recover from this kind of attack.
1: kill the system that did the deed or is causing the damage and restore the corrupted files from some sort of backup. or
2: catch the system when it finishes the encryption. Then pay the ransom and hope they keep their word to send the decryption signal to the workstation that opened the email or web page.
Cryptolocker is not to be played with unless you have good backups.
Keeping no backups or not testing them from time to time is a recipe for failure.
Easy to recover if they did their DR plan.
Failure to plan is planning to fail.
The 7 “P’s”
Proper
Prior
Planning
Prevents
Piss
Poor
Performance