Ransomware Protection

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  Windows 10 has a built-in ransomware block, you just need to enable it

  pcgamer.com - By Paul Lilly

  Turns out there is a mechanism in Windows Defender that can protect your files from ransomware. Windows 10 comes with its own baked-in antivirus …

• https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-the-internets-biggest-security-crisis-is-getting-worse-we-need-a-way-out/

  

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  ZDNet

  Apr 11, 2021
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  Ransomware: A company paid millions to get their data back, but forgot to do one thing. So the hackers came back again

  ZDNET - Danny Palmer

  A cautionary tale shows how organisations that fall foul of ransomware should concentrate on finding how it happened before anything else - or they …

• What happened in Atlanta GA https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/03/atlanta-ransomware-lessons/

  

  PeaComputing

  Mar 28, 2018
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  Hackers are holding the city of Atlanta’s computer systems for ransom, causing massive outages — and anyone who has conducted business with the city is at risk

  Business Insider - Prachi Bhardwaj

  • A ransomware attack on the city of Atlanta's government created outages for many consumer-facing and internal applications, putting "everyone who has done business" with the city at risk, according to a report from NBC's Atlanta affiliate WXIA.• The hackers are demanding a bitcoin payment of $6,800 …

• https://www.axios.com/new-ransomware-hack-sweeping-around-the-world-2487345489.html

  

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  Axios

  Sep 20, 2017