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Old 05-08-2019, 04:07 PM
 
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It seems like the city can hardly catch a break

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/secu...-servers-down/
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Old 05-09-2019, 04:30 AM
 
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My guess is Baltimore City will pay the criminals to remove it. They knew about the Healthy Holly book deals and let the criminals take advantage of taxpayers.
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Old 05-09-2019, 08:55 AM
 
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My guess is Baltimore City will pay the criminals to remove it. They knew about the Healthy Holly book deals and let the criminals take advantage of taxpayers.


LOL.. Damn Pappjohn... you keep pounding like the Energizer Bunny.....
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Old 05-09-2019, 10:02 AM
 
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
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I read on zero hedge that the demand to restore everything was $76K. Seems like they should pay it, what other option do they have?
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Old 05-09-2019, 03:53 PM
 
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The ramsonware criminals that hit the city of Atlanta demanded a fraction of that, but Atlanta refused. So Atlanta then paid contractors over $20 million to get their systems back.
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Old 05-10-2019, 02:15 PM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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days later, the hackers are still accessing the system.

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/...omware-attack/
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Old 05-10-2019, 06:44 PM
 
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A good computer hack or engineer could fix this for less
The problem is that Baltimore City employees incompetent ones . They would have to hire outside the city.
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Old 05-15-2019, 04:44 PM
 
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Update:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/ma...514-story.html

"The ransomware attack on Baltimore city’s government computers has shut down systems essential for completing home sales, putting a halt to property deals during one of the real estate industry’s busiest times of year."

The city also won't be able to collect on water bills, but I doubt many city residents are upset about that.
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Old 05-16-2019, 08:34 PM
 
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To prevent this catastrophe, the people who had the duties of
maintaining the computers at City Hall just had to make sure the
operating system had the current updates and backup important
data on OFFLINE databases. This way they could have done a
complete reset with mirror drives. This standing-on-principals
stance that Mayor Jack Young is just not a sound financial strategy.
I guess it is an easy thing to do if the taxpayers are funding it.


Pay the ransom, terminate current IT personnel in charge of the
computers, hire new personnel that will present a tight security
grid, lick wounds and start afresh.
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Old 05-18-2019, 05:57 AM
 
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FiRE Jack Young, fire the IT staff in Baltimore city and hire competent leaders and IT staff. No more BS should be accepted in Baltimore.
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