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.

4meAndyou · F

@stratosranger The ex used to work in IT for a financial firm, and they did daily backups.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou the school administration will learn an expensive lesson if they have failed to do this

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Rokasu · 36-40, M

@stratosranger You realize those backups are generally on the same network? There's also the ever growing intelligence of Ransomware. AI that seeks out credentials like wildfire. Even your cloud stuff could be compromised.

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.