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Tenpoundbass
2020 Oct 30, 8:08am
Tenpoundbass
2020 Oct 30, 8:08am
How did they resurrect your computer? It's damn near impossible.
We got hit at work earlier in the year, and it wiped out our whole network. The attack started on Friday late evening, by time we got to the office on Monday. It wiped out everything, every server, every work station, and all of the on site backups. Luckily they keep off site backups, and were able to rebuild all of our servers. But they didn't include any of my development code.
Thankfully it didn't encrypt any DLL's or Exes. I was able pull all of the DLL's out of the bin folders of the production code. And then Refactor by decompiling them.
I think had to rebuild all of my projects, and the decompiled code is horrendous, verbose and ugly. I then had to spend a few months, cleaning up the code, and renaming variables from things like "String1" to something more meaning in the context of my code.
We got hit at work earlier in the year, and it wiped out our whole network. The attack started on Friday late evening, by time we got to the office on Monday. It wiped out everything, every server, every work station, and all of the on site backups. Luckily they keep off site backups, and were able to rebuild all of our servers. But they didn't include any of my development code.
Thankfully it didn't encrypt any DLL's or Exes. I was able pull all of the DLL's out of the bin folders of the production code. And then Refactor by decompiling them.
I think had to rebuild all of my projects, and the decompiled code is horrendous, verbose and ugly. I then had to spend a few months, cleaning up the code, and renaming variables from things like "String1" to something more meaning in the context of my code.
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Automan Empire
2020 Oct 30, 8:30am
Automan Empire
2020 Oct 30, 8:30am
ohomen171 says
Reads like, "I took my stunning 10/10 date to McDonalds!"
Cyberattack hitting US hospital systems and a few schools according to local news.
I took my computer to The Geek Squad.
Reads like, "I took my stunning 10/10 date to McDonalds!"
Cyberattack hitting US hospital systems and a few schools according to local news.
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The hackers struck back. They took over the computers of two hospital systems and a small town in Georgia (Voting). They have warned that they have 400 other hospitals as targets. They have demanded big payments in cryptocurrencies to give an encryption key to allow the owners of the computer systems to get their computers back. (People who pay the ransom sometimes do not get their computers back.)
Early last year, I got hit with ransomware. A sinister machine voice came on my computer and warned me to pay $5,000 in Bitcoins to get my computer back. I do not bow down to black mailers. I took my computer to The Geek Squad. It took them a week, but they got control of my computer back to me. The bill was $250.00.
Everyone hackers use a trick to get into computers. They send out a very convincing email with an innocent-looking link. Some hapless person clicks on the link. The hackers are now inside the computer and can look at data, steal data, destroy data, or lock up the computer and demand a ransom to give it back.
Elena's employer puts every employee who uses the computer system through intense training in computer awareness and security. The moral of this story is that you should be super careful before you click on any link.