“Never Give Ransomware Scammers Your Money”

https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/369143/never-give-ransomware-scammers-your-money

“A Florida city made the difficult decision to fork over the cash after ransomware hijacked city computers. Everyone needs to make their own
choice, but I firmly believe you should never pay the ransom.”

Lynn

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On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:18:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

�Never Give Ransomware Scammers Your Money�

https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/369143/never-give-ransomware-scammers-your-money

�A Florida city made the difficult decision to fork over the cash after >ransomware hijacked city computers. Everyone needs to make their own
choice, but I firmly believe you should never pay the ransom.�

They should have backups. Lots of backups a day, and not to
the same storage. So when ransomware hits, they've lost at most a few
hours of data.
Even so, if a some multi-million dollar contracts were signed
since the last backup it will still be a tough decision to make.
Or in the case of hospitals, even with backups the last few
hours of treatment administered and duly registered could be lost. And
people could die through overdoses or lack of treatment.
I say charge the bad guys with the damage done. Someone died?
First degree murder. They will be caught eventually.
[]'s
--
Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy - Google 2012

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Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

“Never Give Ransomware Scammers Your Money”

https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/369143/never-give-ransomware-scammers-your-money

“A Florida city made the difficult decision to fork over the cash
after ransomware hijacked city computers. Everyone needs to make their
own choice, but I firmly believe you should never pay the ransom.”

Lynn

I firmly believe you should have backups and disaster recovery
procedures that make it unnecessary to pay the ransom. But if you've
made the mistake of not having that, and the data will be much more
expensive to reconstruct than the ransom, you really don't have much
choice.

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Shadow wrote:

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:18:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

"Never Give Ransomware Scammers Your Money"

https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/369143/never-give-ransomware-scammers-your-money

"A Florida city made the difficult decision to fork over the cash
after ransomware hijacked city computers. Everyone needs to make
their own choice, but I firmly believe you should never pay the
ransom."

They should have backups. Lots of backups a day, and not to
the same storage. So when ransomware hits, they've lost at most a few
hours of data.
Even so, if a some multi-million dollar contracts were signed
since the last backup it will still be a tough decision to make.
Or in the case of hospitals, even with backups the last few
hours of treatment administered and duly registered could be lost. And
people could die through overdoses or lack of treatment.
I say charge the bad guys with the damage done. Someone died?
First degree murder. They will be caught eventually.
[]'s

I don't understand why law enforcement is so ineffective if they can't
trace the money and catch them immediately.

AV is also surprisingly ineffective if it can't detect when a single
process is overwriting every file.

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On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 01:58:18 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso" <fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> wrote:

Shadow wrote:

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:18:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

"Never Give Ransomware Scammers Your Money"

https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/369143/never-give-ransomware-scammers-your-money

"A Florida city made the difficult decision to fork over the cash
after ransomware hijacked city computers. Everyone needs to make
their own choice, but I firmly believe you should never pay the
ransom."

They should have backups. Lots of backups a day, and not to
the same storage. So when ransomware hits, they've lost at most a few
hours of data.
Even so, if a some multi-million dollar contracts were signed
since the last backup it will still be a tough decision to make.
Or in the case of hospitals, even with backups the last few
hours of treatment administered and duly registered could be lost. And
people could die through overdoses or lack of treatment.
I say charge the bad guys with the damage done. Someone died?
First degree murder. They will be caught eventually.
[]'s

I don't understand why law enforcement is so ineffective if they can't
trace the money and catch them immediately.

Payments in bitcoin are very hard to trace.

AV is also surprisingly ineffective if it can't detect when a single
process is overwriting every file.

Well, if they did that, what would people be scared of?
People only use and update AVs in the hope it will prevent
most malware. The 1% that gets through is free advertizing.
[]'s
--
Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy - Google 2012

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