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Site taken down by ransomware
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space-time wrote:
Why not restore from backup?

A local school discovered that hard way that if the backup drive is connected in any way to the affected server, it gets encrypted too. Apparently that can include cloud based backups (little fuzzy on which ones, etc).

They had to restore their Student Information System database from a backup two months old... They lost a LOT of student data.
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Site taken down by ransomware - by chopper - 02-03-2017, 03:47 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by space-time - 02-03-2017, 04:04 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by Paul F. - 02-03-2017, 04:11 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by chopper - 02-03-2017, 04:27 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by michaelb - 02-03-2017, 04:30 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by numbered - 02-03-2017, 04:31 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by Ombligo - 02-03-2017, 04:59 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by Paul F. - 02-03-2017, 05:03 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by chopper - 02-03-2017, 05:11 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by Buck - 02-03-2017, 05:30 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by Ombligo - 02-03-2017, 05:35 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by jdc - 02-03-2017, 06:16 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by wurm - 02-03-2017, 06:35 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by testcase - 02-03-2017, 06:44 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by hal - 02-03-2017, 08:20 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by GuyGene - 02-03-2017, 08:24 PM
Re: Site taken down by ransomware - by Speedy - 02-04-2017, 02:21 PM

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