Posts Tagged ‘ransomware’
Garmin Experiences Ransomware Attack Causing Global Outage
Do you make use of a Garmin wearable device? If so, then you’ve probably noticed that your device isn’t working the way you expect it to. That’s because the company is experiencing what there are now describing as a global outage. The notification on the company’s website reads, in part as follows: “We are currently…
Read MoreMajor University In California Pays Ransome!
The University of San Francisco (UCSF) is the latest organization to fall victim to hackers, running afoul of a group utilizing the Netwalker ransomware strain. UCSF is a research university whose recent efforts have been focused on health sciences generally and COVID-19-related research specifically. On June 3rd, 2020, Netwalker published a notice on a site…
Read MoreWeekly Security Update – May 1st
Ransomware has been a dominant threat to organizations for several years now, causing damage estimated to be in the billions of dollars. Increasingly, a common action carried out by ransomware attacks is to erase the volume backups (i.e., shadow copies), thereby preventing victims from being able to recover any files that had been encrypted. Defenders…
Read MoreWhy do I keep getting this pop-up?
I originally was not going to post this, but received permission from the person it happened to… so.. Before our life in quarantine, there was a time were I was called in to help with a serious IT situation. A friend referred me to a doctor’s office that was having a computer issue. They were…
Read MoreRansomware
This is a great graphical depiction of Ransomware.
Read MoreUS Railroad reports data breach AFTER a Ransomware Attack
A US Railroad company, RailWorks Corporation, reported a data breach after a Ransomware attack occurred. The exposure 3,500 Personal Identifiable Information (PII) of their employees (current and former), dependents and beneficiaries. Not only did RailWorks have to deal with the RansomWare, but also the exposure of a data breach of PII information of their employees.…
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