Posted on 06/06/2021 4:10:11 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
I find it interesting that this is reported by MSN, the reason ransomeware works.
They’re just drumming up more business and inspiring hackers to get in on the gold rush. Anything to Make America Poor Again.
They give morons admin access to their computers and then here we are
Just another reason to prep.
I was going to post that!
and there is no way our computer “geniuses” can prevent it????
It’s high time to develop a hardcopy back up of some kind.
Not all industries have this as a practical option.
Those who do, would benefit from going retro, with paper files of codes and passwords.
This is where the Soviets really had the right idea, though for the wrong purposes.
Find out who was responsible, then send in the “Bulgarians” for the “wet work”.
Stuff like this would stop in a hurry as soon as the perps realized that the penalty for getting caught isn’t prison, but slow, painful, brutal death, often with your parts mailed individually to your business associates and friends.
A “special” sort of special ops, so to speak...
Maybe we need a Patriot Act of sorts that greatly increases surveillance of all online activity.
No privacy, no anonymity, every keystroke recorded, stuff like that.
FBI is too busy tracking down tourists to DC to stop this.
Good. There is a price to pay for engaging in cowardice, hysteria, and fear for well over a year. The weak will always be taken advantage of. Always.
Not if the people in management and accounting don’t see the point to spending the money needed to secure their systems. There are a LOT of people, usually older, that don’t seem to realize how important securing their IT infrastructure is. They often claim that if all the IT gear died tomorrow they could successfully run the company like they did in the Seventies, with paper, typewriters and telephones.
Find them and kill them.
Make it messy.
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No, no, we don’t. What we *do* need is regulations that hold corporate management responsible for anything that happens if they don’t take basic steps to prevent ransomware or other IT disasters. I work in IT and the number of companies that don’t even have backups, or even see the need for them, is ridiculous. “They cost too much, we’ll never need them.”
Some would say that’s a feature, not a bug. :P
If it were only that simple this would be fixable.
Ransomware attacks almost always start by some stupid user who clicks on an attachment in an email from someone they don't know, or from someone who's email has been hijacked.
In both cases, the recipient of the email should know better than to click on an unexpected attachment -- yet they do so anyway.
IT Departments that are worth their salt do their best to educate their users to NOT do what I described above. And yet, here we are. Some DUMBASS clicks the attachment and launches the Ransomware attack.
My life would be so much better if my employer simply eliminated email. Or shot the stupid users who clicked on unexpected email attachments. Set the example and these things would stop.
Just sayin'...
Wanna stop this crap? Assassinate the culprits.
FReepers wishing to avoid a visit to msnworld, and all that implies, can find the original article here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/08/ransomware-human-impact/
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