Why are these systems “often

woefully out of date and poorly

protected”? Wouldn’t a better

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and protected?

—Sbigboy

Yes, there is usually a time limit.

Also, with the recent spate of drive-

by ransomware served up by ad

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and put some sort of hardware ad-

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The ransomware creators actually do

have an incentive to send you a

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reputation. If you pay your

ransomware, and you do not get the

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damage their chances of getting

anyone else to pay the ransom for

that ransomware.

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logs to determine if anyone

unauthorized accessed your data

remotely, or indeed managed to

download all of your data before

encrypting it, although that’s really

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using Atlanta as an example here is

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advice and didn’t pay the ransom. It

cost them 2.6 million, because they

had to rebuild all their systems from

scratch because they had bad or

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hire security consultants and digital

forensics agents, all of which do not

come cheap. They also increased

the security on their systems at

this time, which added to the cost

of rebuilding.

Now it is true that if no one ever paid

the ransoms, maybe the bad actors

would stop with all this ransomware

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happen, especially when a

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under the rug and pretend it never

happened as long as they just pay

the ransom.

—Bob

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