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Florida city pays hackers $600K in bitcoin to get computer systems back
NY Post ^
| 6/20/19
| Lia Eustachewich
Posted on 06/21/2019 1:56:41 AM PDT by Libloather
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Russians?
To: Libloather
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:03:42 AM PDT
by
preacher
( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
To: Libloather
Let’s see, they pay the $65K and then nothing happens...
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:18:00 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Libloather
Why have that stuff connected to the internet? Don’t these people know about VPNs and firewalls?
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:19:17 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: wastedyears
So their employees can talk with each other and use the same applications? Just a guess.
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:20:58 AM PDT
by
marajade
(Skywalker)
To: wastedyears
And so clients can pay their water bills on line. And so clients can renew their car tags on line. So clients can pay their parking violation tickets on line. You know. Just stuff like that.
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:22:57 AM PDT
by
marajade
(Skywalker)
To: marajade
How much y’wann’a bet the thing STARTED by an employee surfing porn .....
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:28:00 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're tru)
To: knarf
Someone got in and now it is gonna cost to unlock it.
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:30:53 AM PDT
by
marajade
(Skywalker)
To: glorgau
$600k and nothing happens.
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:33:40 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(Global warming is AWESOME!)
To: knarf
More likely started by an insider who is now getting paid in bitcoin.
These ransoms should never be paid. All it is doing is incentivizing and financing the next round of piracy.
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:38:12 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
To: marajade
That’s what an intranet is for.
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:38:34 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: wastedyears
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:39:04 AM PDT
by
marajade
(Skywalker)
To: Libloather
How much did they pay Hillary Clinton for her cybersecurity lecture?
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:39:05 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: Libloather
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.
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posted on
06/21/2019 2:55:29 AM PDT
by
srmanuel
To: Libloather
To: Libloather
Just how long will the ransomed comp system be safe from another kidnapping?
Not bloody long!
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:20:16 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
To: Libloather
Guess they don’t have backup. Very ignorant. The mayor sounds like a total fool in quotes in the article.
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:36:13 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(No muzzy is fit to hold public office - their cult (religion) is incompatible with the Constitution.)
To: Libloather
At some point we are all going back to paper. The cost of using computers due to oppression and crime will become prohibitive.
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:48:38 AM PDT
by
Nuc 1.1
(Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: Libloather
City tax dollars at work!
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:59:44 AM PDT
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: Libloather
So computers were supposed to make our lives better?
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posted on
06/21/2019 4:40:52 AM PDT
by
Keyhopper
(Indians had bad immigration laws)
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