Terrorist Attack cyber terrorism at its worst...

[jontte]

http://americanmilitarynews.com/201...ook&utm_campaign=alt&utm_source=militarymemes

so you all UK based ones,big doo-doo.

and you over the pond,wait 'till business hrs with this crap,unless your hospitals have updated your comp.hardware..

 

[bigpaul]

that's what happens when you put all your info on computers and get rid of paper files, its called "putting all your eggs in one basket"!!

 

[DrHenley]

We got hit with one of those at work and I can tell you it is a very nasty bugger. It encrypts data files, and you have to pay the ransom by bitcoin to get the decryption key. As soon as I realized what was happening I shut the whole office and server room down, and the damage was limited to three machines - two workstations and one server.

It came in through someone's email, but the funny thing was that her machine wasn't infected directly. The server had good backups but the two workstations had files encrypted by the ransomware that weren't on a backup.

I first called our local computer shop who does virus cleanup all the time, and they told me that I would have to wipe the hard drives and start over on the workstations, but I kept digging until I found a way to combat the ransomware.

Nobody has found a way to decrypt the files without the key, but you might be able to recover them from what is called a "Shadow Volume" on Windows 7 and better.

First you have to delete all the directories with encrypted files, do a system restore, then use a tool called ShadowExplorer to find the shadow volume files to replace the files that were encrypted by the ransomware. It's a bit tedious, but I had everything cleaned up and back to normal in less than half a day.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2084002/security/how-to-rescue-your-pc-from-ransomware.html

http://www.shadowexplorer.com/downloads.html

 

[jontte]

we seem to rely on computers so much,way too much...

 

[Brent S]

that's what happens when you put all your info on computers and get rid of paper files, its called "putting all your eggs in one basket"!!

My son thinks I waste paper on printing copies of all our business stuff. He says it's all recorded, why do you want stacks of papers. One of these days he will realize why.

 

[WGregMiller]

Or you back your junk up regularly..... most if not all doctor offices can't see patients without their computer system any more. Our gubmint forced that on them several years ago...

 

[Brent S]

Or you back your junk up regularly..... most if not all doctor offices can't see patients without their computer system any more. Our gubmint forced that on them several years ago...

We use the Microsoft cloud as a backup too, but who's to say it can't get infected by something. I like having a file cabinet too.

 

[WGregMiller]

I back up to a local hard drive that doesn't stay connected and the cloud.

If you're talking about MS OneDrive, it keeps a folder on your hard drive that syncs to the cloud. If that folder gets the clap, your cloud will too...

Just be careful!

 

[Brent S]

I back up to a local hard drive that doesn't stay connected and the cloud.

If you're talking about MS OneDrive, it keeps a folder on your hard drive that syncs to the cloud. If that folder gets the clap, your cloud will too...

Just be careful!

I'll ask my IT guy, aka my son, as I don't have a clue! I can build a house, make mouldings and cabinets, etc., but as soon as the button on my computer dosent do what it normally does, I'm done. My son loves the challenge of getting things to work, I just love having him to call when they don't.

 

[grayghost668]

We use the Microsoft cloud as a backup too, but who's to say it can't get infected by something. I like having a file cabinet too.

Microsoft,,those turds,,let them decide someone might have hacked your account and they lock you out ,I am locked out right now and I doubt I will ever get back in,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I lost it all,I use one drive and it's locked also

 

[bigpaul]

the cyber attack on the UK NHS seems to have been focused on London, The Home Counties(Kent, Surrey mainly), The Midlands and Scotland, none of the NHS Trusts in the South West were affected.
I don't trust computers, any info I want to keep is printed on paper and put in a hard backed file, my books are books not kindle, if the system goes down I've still got all my info to hand.

 

[Rob Painless]

I'll ask my IT guy, aka my son, as I don't have a clue! I can build a house, make mouldings and cabinets, etc., but as soon as the button on my computer dosent do what it normally does, I'm done.

You & me both, Brent. Except in my case it's my wife or my 16 yr. old daughter. Pretty sad...I can re-wire a feed mill or fertilizer plant, but how do I e-mail this picture from my phone?

 

[Arcticdude]

Amoung other things, I used to be in charge of new technology at my former job. That doesn't mean that I know anything about computers other than how to turn one on. I just hired the right people.

 

[bigpaul]

join the club, all my computer "skills" are self taught, I know just enough to do what I want to online, and no more.

 

[Maverick]

I'll stick with pencil and paper and when done I'll use the papers to start fires.

 

[DrHenley]

the cyber attack on the UK NHS seems to have been focused on London, The Home Counties(Kent, Surrey mainly), The Midlands and Scotland, none of the NHS Trusts in the South West were affected.

There attack wasn't focused on particular regions. It was focused on vulnerable systems no matter where they were. Is most likely spreads by email attachments. Somebody in an office clicks on the email attachment, then if their computer is vulnerable, it gets infected and a worm starts infecting other vulnerable systems on the same network. Offices that still ran Windows XP systems seemed to be the most vulnerable. Microsoft is taking the unusual step of sending out security patches for Windows XP which hasn't had any security patches for some time now.

Don't click on email attachments unless you have to.

 

[WGregMiller]

Yep. Happened with other ransomware before - you get a n email with an attachment that looks like a PDF but it's really named whatever.pdf.exe, meaning its executable. Boom - encrypted files....