Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hackers $600k

Re:Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hack... by JoshTriplett on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:43AM (#20232827)

Then you have a backup server that's privileged to access data from clients, which makes the backup server an attractive target.

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Re:Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hack... by dmurray on Thursday June 20, 2019 @10:05AM (#20233043)

Then you reduce the attack surface on this one special-purpose machine, which is much easier than doing the same on all your employees' desktops.

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