Alerts, Best Practices, Breach, Business Continuity

You Can Learn from Suffolk County’s Mistakes

November 21, 2023 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

About a year ago Suffolk County on Long Island in New York was taken out by a ransomware attack. It took months to get back online. So what did they do wrong? Pretty much everything. First, they had to find a scapegoat, so they fired their IT director. Did he do anything wrong? No. In […]

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Breach, Hacks, Uncategorized

An Admin’s Worst Nightmare (AKA Cryptowall Gotcha)

November 4, 2014 CyberCecurity

Sometimes not using best practices gets us. Other times it is fatal. Check out this article about an admin who had his (or her) entire universe fall down around his/her ankles. The article shows how, in this case, not following best practices was more than a little inconvenient. The admin was reading his email, apparently […]

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