Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says

Re:Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kas... by inetknght on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:08PM (#27750391)

> categorically preventing this type of attack should be possible with the right internal security approach

Yeah. But many many small/medium businesses have been left behind in understanding how software works and how to be secure. A lot of that is because big businesses offload the cost of it onto others instead of leading the way like they should.

Where before you'd have humans interacting which would prevent massive promulgation of bad actors... now a lot of that is automated. So all it takes is one weak link in the chain.

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Re:Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kas... by jdavis703 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:34PM (#27750798)

Why don’t small/medium businesses go all in on the cloud? Surely it must be easier for the non-technical SMB order/manager to use Google Drive than run their own file servers?

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Re:Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kas... by ipaddr on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:01PM (#27751266)

Because that same phishing email will expose those services too. It is not a location issue.

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Re:Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kas... by jdavis703 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:25PM (#27752416)

Sure the phishing email could cause a data breach. But this is about ransomware.

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