Ransomware Attack On The School District’s Computer System This Weekend…

Trying to get a huge amount of $ to remove it. All of the high school students have school-issued computers and the students got a message to leave them turned off. There are 1,000 freshman at one of the two high schools so no telling how many computers were involved in this attack.

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stratosranger · M

Best defense against a ransomware attack is frequent full backups of drives, servers, etc. Delete the current system, upload the new and of course change those admin passwords!! But no one ever does it. I think my last backup is two months old.

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stratosranger · M

@Rokasu Anyone putting their backups on the same server or (god forbid!) in the cloud is not doing their job correctly. 🙄

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Rokasu · 36-40, M

@stratosranger You can't even put a backup on the same server wtf. Wherever you put your backups your equipment needs to be able to reach it. It may need to be randomly restored.

akindheart · 61-69, F

That happened to Riviera Beach. the entire city was shut down. they had to pay the ransom.

4meAndyou · F

I guess the schools haven't heard about PC Matic.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou I don’t know what they use

MarineBob · 56-60, M

Tell a kid not to do something and they will anyway

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