This does make some sense. The arms race will continue. “With the rise of additional mitigation and recovery options that help organizations avoid paying the ransom, the next stage is to force payment, and it would be easy for the actor to post a number of example files to Pastebin,” perhaps initially in an encrypted…
We are seeing this a lot, and this situation is one that seems to be cropping up over and over again. “The ransomware attack encrypted electronic files at the Tuscaloosa, Northport and Fayette hospitals, forcing staff to use a manual paper system to track patient data. All but the most critically ill or injured new…
These results from the 2018 ABA Legal Technology Survey are not at all good, given how much information is laying around law firms these days. “Less than half of the responding firms have the following policies or plans that are important facets of a law firm’s security posture: computer acceptable use policy (41%); remote access…
First of all, it’s always good to keep this kind of list handy. Stuff happens and sometimes you need to try and get back files that were removed accidentally. Secondly though, as many of us move to SSD hard drives for the speed, it’s worth being extra careful when deleting from those drives: The reason…
As long as there’s money to be made in it, ransomware will continue to be on the rise, and there is no doubt there is money in it. “While it isn’t really suggested for victims to pay the ransom demanded by these malicious programs, it seems that many are still doing so. According to…
They let users embed images with free accounts for years, and then suddenly changed that policy… “But the new policy has also affected historical social media posts, blogs and forums that were reliant on Photobucket. One of those affected is Stampboards, a forum with more than 17,000 members who discuss postage stamps and share images…