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Re:DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware... by icedchai on Monday June 07, 2021 @08:05PM (#27428973)
Many so called "professionals" are still running operations with 5+ year old distributions that haven't been patched in almost as many years, and servers that people are afraid to reboot. I was once contracted by a company that was literally afraid to have any employees reboot a server because they had no idea how it worked, if it would come back up, and what to do if something didn't restart. They wanted an outside guy to take the blame.
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Re:DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware... by rm_-rf_slash on Monday June 07, 2021 @09:15PM (#27429522)
Would’ve been a decent opportunity to contract a job paid half up front.
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Re:DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware... by icedchai on Monday June 07, 2021 @10:01PM (#27429825)
I took the job on the side. It was literally the equivalent of "set up a couple of static web servers with FTP accounts, and move everything over." It was about 8 hours of work and 100 hours of meetings.
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