[AusNOG] Ransomware...

[Skeeve Stevens]

Robert,

Obviously if you can restore the file you would.

But... You've been hit at work (where you are responsible), family business
(where you may or may not) and at home (where you are likely responsible).

This is not a fantastic testament to you skills is it.

You always think you have a choice - until you don't. Of course, trust the
advice of people who aren't stake holders, clearly they have your best
interests at heart - because clearly you don't.


...Skeeve

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 Sep 2016 8:25 AM, "Skeeve Stevens" <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetwo
> rks.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is from the perspective of someone who hasn't been held to ransom
>
> Wrong. I have been hit at work where I am responsible for the IT systems
> (to the point where I can lose my job, and thus ability to support my
> family.  We recovered files without paying the ransom
>
> > had their business at risk
>
> Wrong. A family business has also been hit. We got hit at home too, with
> documents encrypted that are worth way more to me than any company or
> business document.  Again, we recovered files without legitimising the
> business model of ransomware authors/attackers.
>
> > and had no other choice.
>
> Wrong.  Three strikes and you're out?  You're really not very good at this
> baseless assumption thing, are you...
>
> > The few here who say they wouldn't pay are the same... wait till it is
> your only choice.
>
> There is always another choice.  Being prepared is a major part of that
> choice.
>
> If you are storing business-critical documents without adequate protection
> from a well documented style of attack that has existed in the wild for
> years now, I would argue that you're not very good at this business thing,
> and your failing to plan is really planning to fail.
>
> A criminal has decided to attack your business, and upon breaching your
> initial defenses, found you to be vulnerable. Someone with the ethics to
> take that path is now holding your data to ransom, promising to release it
> if you pay them some money via a path that makes it virtually impossible to
> trace them. And never to bother you, someone who already proved that will
> give up money if threatened, again.
>
> Now, I don't pretend to understand the throught processes of such people.
> But a target, I choose to trust people who have acted in that particular
> fashion as far as I can throw them.
>
> All the advice I get from people who I trust in matters such as this is
> that I am doing the right thing.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Robert
>
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